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THIS has been a year that will live long in the memory, mostly for the wrong reasons. More than 70 million people have fallen ill with a virus that we didn’t even know existed this time last year. More than a million and a half have died. Millions more are struggling with the long shadow of the disease.

At the same time, daily life for huge numbers of people changed to an extent that few would have thought feasible as we wassailed towards the last festive period. The way many people work, travel, shop, eat, entertain themselves and …