NEW YORK CITY: If the COVID-19 pandemic has sent the world one message, it is that we are only as safe as the most vulnerable among us.
Those who are unable to quarantine themselves or to get treatment endanger their own lives and the lives of others, and if one country cannot contain the virus, others are bound to be infected, or even re-infected.
Advertisement Advertisement And yet, around the world, social-protection systems are failing miserably at safeguarding the lives and livelihoods