COMMENT | As the world grapples with the containment of the Covid-19 pandemic whilst it crushes socio-economic foundations and brings world-leaders to their knees, the question at the back of our minds is how will the storyline end?

Known to all is the balancing act of instilling lockdowns which buys time in reducing the impact on morbidity and mortality apart from attaining immunity against having no mass social containment as practised in South Korea and Sweden in their quest to attain herd immunity.

In countries which have opted for the former approach, the question remains as to the duration necessary for the implementation of the lockdown and the method in which it should be eased