Dear Colleagues,
The world is now facing a health threat unknown in its modern history, comparable only to the deadly flu pandemics of the Great War era. COVID-19 has brought to standstill our offices, universities, workshops, shopping centres and airports. It has cruelly and relentlessly exposed the soft spots of the modern world as a global village: free trade, open borders and inexpensive transcontinental travel, taken for granted as cornerstones of our free and egalitarian civilisation, turned out to be critically conducive to the rapid spread of the pandemics. The modern plague has affected the entire globe. Although our hearts go out to the victims and their families suffering terrible personal losses especially in China, Italy, Spain, the UK and the US, very few corners of the world have been left unaffected and the numbers of infected patients and deaths are still on the rise globally. We have our friends, colleagues and SG partners in the worst affected places and we are here for them.
