A year on, we have still barely understood and processed this pandemic which has destroyed millions of lives. It has attacked the human body, wrecked ways of life, annihilated jobs, impacted mental health, and cast a shadow over hope in the future.

To better understand this phenomenon, we are providing you with a 360º overview of the cross-cutting impacts that have befallen our lives: from the way we work and relate to each other in private and public spaces to the struggle for reinvention within industries such as aviation. From doctors to scientists, from economists to geopolitics experts, and many more, we bring you views on pandemic management and the consequences thereof, such as the search for a more restrained form of capitalism where human beings regain their proper worth.

But life kept going, despite everything that happened in 2020, something underlined by our interview with Jorge Magalhães Correia, Chairman of Fidelidade, the leading insurer in Portugal. He discusses the Group's evolution and its unique contribution to the market, which did not stop for the pandemic. It is still too early to understand the full ramifications of the Covid-19 pandemic, but one thing is certain — you can't bring back the prepandemic world. I, like many others, think we have an opportunity to create a new world - a more sustainable, fairer one, a place of increased solidarity. The question is, can we as human beings take that step forward? Plunged as we are into an unprecedented global crisis, any answer to this question can only be speculative at this point. However, knowledge of the issues on the table will certainly afford a deeper understanding of what is at stake. And our contribution to widening understanding is through this new FULLCOVER issue.

Once the heavy clouds in this sky that has fallen on our heads disperse, and we get to see the sunshine anew, then, and only then, perhaps we can remove our masks — and look forward to finally “reopening”.