The global pandemic occasioned by the outbreak of the corona virus (Covis-19) has been the first and will remain one of the greatest challenges that will face the human race in the 21st Century. Unlike such previous crises, it immediately defy immediate effective responses and effectively tasked the capacities and resources of the global leaders in politics and economics, rendering the known indices of technological advancement prostrate as the leading countries of America, Europe and Asia became the major victims of a global health problem not expected to have caught them pants down!

The author of this book has helped us to collate the responses to the outbreak from different countries among those hardest hit by the outbreak and its attendant challenges. Laced with appropriate statistics, the book could serve a quick reference guide for those interested in following the trends of events that predated and attended the major global concern of the first half of Year 2020. Although mainly focused on the developed world, the ideas brought out from the analysis are of relevance, not only to the developed countries but also to the 'Other World' of the developing counties, in constructing appropriately policy architecture to tackle current ongoing and future challenges for the survival of the human race. I commend the book to a wider audience of readers of myriad background from all the nooks and crannies of the globe.