Coronavirus and climate change require bold and urgent action

We are living in a time that the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), as declared by the World Health Organization (WHO), is a pandemic.

Wuhan city in China’s Hubei province, where Covid-19 was first detected, was the first to declare a city lockdown. Aside from Wuhan, China also locked down 15 more cities and quarantined at least 20 provinces.