Alok Sharma Quotes

Covid-19 may be here for a long time.

In the face of Covid-19, everything else seems a side-issue.

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.

The spread of the disease is under control. What I worry about is the spread of fear of the disease is not under control.

Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.

COVID-19 is a national crisis, and we need a national response to address it.

Covid spreads too easily to think it can be confined to the young.

Public health officials, researchers and states rely on CDC data to track the coronavirus and make quite literally life and death decisions.

I'm tired of being behind this virus. We've been behind this virus from day one. We underestimated this virus. It's more powerful, it's more dangerous than we expected.

Coronavirus has challenged daily life in Britain in a way not seen for generations.

As the COVID-19 situation evolves, we need to make sure we have enough medical professionals to care for people in need.

This disease, called COVID 19, will be over much sooner than you think. Christian people all over this country, praying, have overwhelmed it.

I took coronavirus very seriously.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

If you really want to isolate a disease, then you have to isolate the people who carry it.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.

Pandemics happen. When they do, they change the world.

The plague is upon us. One cannot well study plagues until after they have run their course.

The city looks in some streets as if the plague had been in it, so many houses being shut up.

More people in the world have died in such a short time of plague than has been heard or seen since the beginning of time …. Whoever touched the sick and dead was immediately infected and died …. That pestilence deprived of human inhabitants villages and cities so that there was scarcely found a man to dwell therein.

There is nothing new about the sudden enthusiasm for aggressive government intervention during a health crisis. Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.