Banana bread, home haircuts and Connell's chain: Marking a year of the pandemic

What we've learned and gone through in the year since the pandemic was proclaimed 
President Joe Biden holds up his face mask as he speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic during a prime-time address from the East Room of the White House, Thursday, March 11, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

President Joe Biden holds up his face mask as he speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic during a prime-time address from the East Room of the White House, Thursday, March 11, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

We’ve been hosting a lot of unwanted anniversaries these days, as we reminisce on our last ‘normal’ week before Covid-19 took on full force.

Last Thursday, March 11, marked one year since the World Health Organisation officially declared a pandemic. On the eve of this day last year, President Trump banned most travel from continental Europe and Leo Varadker made his first speech laying out measures to tackle the spread of the virus here at home.

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