Festive cheer may feel in short supply this holiday season amid rising concerns over the spread of a more infectious strain of coronavirus. Yet despite the multitude of miseries the pandemic has inflicted, the year has witnessed extraordinary scientific endeavour. The Christmas period should be not only a time to remember the 1.7m people lost to Covid-19, but to celebrate the resilience and spirit of the human race — and the success of science and technology — in the face of a deadly killer.
由於人們對一種更具傳染性的新冠病毒毒株傳播的擔憂日漸加劇，這個聖誕假期的節日歡樂氣氛或許淡了一些。然而，雖然這場大流行病造成了許多不幸，但這一年見證了科學工作者作出的非凡努力。這個聖誕假期不僅應紀念因感染新冠而去世的170萬人，還應讚頌人類在面對這一致命病毒時所表現出的韌性和精神，以及科學和技術所取得的成功。
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