EDITORIAL: Don’t let down your guard

EDITORIAL: Don’t let down your guardAt the peak of the deadly Covid-19 wave in the mid-winter of 2021, Namibia recorded, for a brief moment, the highest daily death rate globally.According to Our World in Data, our daily rate of death last July stood at 22 per million. For a country with just over 2.5 million, this was an unimaginable horror.Almost a year later, we have entered the fifth wave.While many families still grieve the loss of loved ones, most Namibians have moved on. And two years after the pandemic first created a tsunami of global chaos and panic, it appears that Covid-19 has settled into the fabric of life.Most of us have either had it and survived, or are likely to survive if we get infected now – especially those who are vaccinated.After the calamitous lack of oxygen, hospital space and other logistical fault lines one year ago, our hard-working healthcare workers and organisations are hopefully better prepared for another spike in cases.But it would be wrong to let down our guard.Covid-19 can still harm, and it can still kill. As a country that has experienced a Covid-19 inferno amidst an under-vaccinated and unprepared population, we must do better this time.Heed the science. Mask up. Wash your hands. Get the jab.Remember: Even if you only experience a mild bout, your fellow Namibian could be the one who suffers the worst of it.Let’s not add to a grief that still percolates in many households a year later.

EDITORIAL: Don’t let down your guard

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Namibian Sun 2025-12-25

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EDITORIAL: Don’t let down your guard

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Namibian Sun 2025-12-25

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