If the easing of the physical manifestations of the coronavirus has pushed governments across the region to remove most of the restrictions that had had a devastating effect on normal life and more particularly on activities that impacted directly on the physical well-being of individuals and groups, not least families, the World Bank’s Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, William Maloney, has gone on record as saying that the region’s gross domestic product (GDP) has, up until now, still not recovered to its 2019 level as the region seeks to emerge from its condition as being among the regions of the world hardest hit by the pandemic.