The road to recovery for the global economy seems drawn out two years after the Covid19 broke out. A global economic rebound in 2022 has been predicted by many, although there is consensus that recovery may be uneven across countries. There is a genuine fear that recessionary ripples from some countries in the Global North may trickle down to the South in ways that may spark major economic turbulence if the pandemic, and its tentacled fallouts, are not reigned in soon.