The Covid-19 pandemic is an inflection point in modern history. Never before has healthcare taken such a pivotal place among key issues as it does today; so much so that a global pandemic is also being seen through the prism of security. According to scholar, Professor Mely Caballero-Anthony, non-traditional security threats may be defined as “challenges to the survival and well-being of peoples and states that arise primarily out of nonmilitary sources, such as climate change, cross-border environmental degradation and resource depletion, infectious diseases…”