The pandemic left disorder and crises in its wake everywhere it struck. Drawing on disciplines including public health politics and socioeconomics this book tracks the spread of COVID19 to weave a coherent picture that explains how scientists learnt about the virus how authorities reacted around the world and how different societies coped.ampamp160Written by a leading team of public health policy and economics experts this volume provides an indepth analysis of various countries responses to the onset of the pandemic as well as suggestions to increase capacity and capability to fight future pandemics. The first part of the book provides an overview of global governance and international cooperation economic and social consequences of the outbreak and breakthroughs in mathematical modelling and COVID19 vaccines.