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Published on: November 10, 2023
Counting the cost of COVID-19
1Faculty of Economics and Administration, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Insights
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has had a significant global impact. This analysis examines its economic, social, cultural, educational, and political effects worldwide.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Epidemiology
- Global Health
Background:
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, first reported in Wuhan, China.
- The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020 due to its rapid global spread.
- Coronaviruses have a history dating back to 1965, with previous strains like SARS causing significant mortality.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze the multifaceted impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- To provide a comprehensive overview of the economic, social, cultural, educational, and political consequences of COVID-19.
Main Methods:
- Literature review and analysis of reported data on COVID-19.
- Synthesis of information regarding the pandemic's effects across various societal domains.
Main Results:
- COVID-19 has resulted in millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths globally within its first four months.
- The pandemic's societal impact, including psychological effects, has been described as potentially more severe than that of World War II.
- The article aims to detail the specific economic, social, cultural, educational, and political ramifications.
Conclusions:
- COVID-19 represents a significant global health crisis with far-reaching consequences.
- Understanding the diverse impacts is crucial for effective response and recovery strategies.
- The pandemic's effects necessitate a comprehensive analysis across multiple sectors.
Abstract:
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the name given by the World Health Organization (WHO) to the highly contagious and infectious disease caused by the Novel Corona Virus or SARS-CoV-2, which was first reported on 31 December 2019 in Wuhan city of the capital of China's Hubei province. Due to the rapid increase in the number of infections worldwide, the WHO in March 2020, declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. Historically, first coronavirus had surfaced in 1965 with symptoms of common cold. Since then five different strands of this virus have emerged, most lethal of them was the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which infected about eight thousand people, killing ten percent of them. The COVID-19 is not the most deadly pandemic world has ever witnessed as the Spanish influenza pandemic, during 1918-19, killed more than fifty million people. Indeed COVID-19 has turned out to be the most lethal of all coronaviruses as it has infected at least three million people killing more than two hundred thousands of them in the first 4 months of its spread. Many politicians and social scientists have dubbed the depression, being caused by COVID-19, worse than that caused by the Second World War. In this article, we shall analyze economic, social, cultural, educational and political impact of the COVID-19.
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