Sri Lanka, April 6 -- Societies across the world are facing tremendous challenges. And on March 31, 2020, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the situation as follows:

"We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations - one that is killing people, spreading human suffering, and upending people's lives. But this is much more than a health crisis. It is a human crisis. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is attacking societies at their core. a disease that represents a threat to everybody in the world and... an economic impact that will bring a recession that probably has no parallel in the recent past. The combination of the two facts and the risk that it contributes to en...