Mauritius Times Epaper Tuesday 29 December 2020
66th Year -- No. 3641 Tuesday, December 29, 2020 www.mauritiustimes.com facebook.com/mauritius.times 18 Pages - ePaper MAURITIUS TIMES l “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” -- Oprah Winfrey Interview: Que sera - sera? Chetan Ramchurn The most perilous job has been futurology, making “After a dreadful first year, the predictions about the future. No model could anticipate what was happening, and it is going to be the same for 2021 worst, I fear, is yet to come” Dr R Neerunjun Gopee + See Page 3 * See Pages 7-8-9 Crystal-Gazing 2021 Coronavirus: how the pandemic could play out in 2021 By Adam Kleczkowski, University of Strathclyde + See Page 2-12 It is easy to look forward to 2021 and list the ills likely to befall the world. Realism dictates that we must do so for ignoring the problems will not make them go away. Photo - himalayanheroes.com By Anil Madan + See Page 4-18 Mauritius Times Tuesday, December 29, 2020 www.mauritiustimes.com Edit Page facebook.com/mauritius.times 2 The Conversation Rough Road Ahead In 2021 Coronavirus: how the pandemic he year that is about to end has been that is, ominously, imposing further financial lived under the deadly shadow of an burden on coming generations. Tinvisible, infiltrative enemy that has all On the political front, there’s the list of could play out in 2021 but decimated the world. It is a year that has questions that have not found answers in had one constant: uncertainties on every Parliament, but government may well be As vaccination begins to take effect, what we'll be able to do front that we can think of.
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