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'Covid return': Will the next wave of pandemic change the world again?

Plans for Christmas, boisterous parties on New Year’s eve, resolutions made on 1 January – we know the rest. And yet, tonight, as I pack in my room for an international trip, tomorrow afternoon, my 72-year-old, mother panics, asking wistfully, minutes after reminding me for the nth time to carry an N95 mask, stay away from crowded areas and sanitise my hands, ‘is the world going to change again?’