COVID-19 timeline of events

The COVID-19 pandemic continued to rage in 2021, but this was increasingly an unequal pandemic, with rich countries receiving millions of doses of vaccine and ending lockdowns and travel bans. It was also a year when policymakers started to prepare for the next inevitable pandemic.

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The year 2021 saw the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic, marked by inequities in vaccine distribution and disparities in the lifting of restrictions between rich and poor countries. It was also a year in which policymakers began planning for future pandemics.