Negative Effects of Covid 19
Covid 19 has negatively impacted all the countries across the world exclusively the developing countries. It has disrupted activities in all sectors from education, health to agriculture. However, it has also brought some positive impacts like innovation and discoveries and improvement in health systems. The infection has negatively affected the world, especially the developing countries, in ways like loss of jobs, disruption of education, increased rates of death, and disruption in religious activities. Additionally, it has created fear and stigma amongst people, overworking of the health sector, family breakups, and an unstable economy.
Despite Covid 19 affecting the developing countries, it has also brought some positive impacts like innovation and discoveries in many sectors. For instance, the education sector, especially the universities and colleges, adopted the digital form of learning that could accommodate students virtually (Egger, et-al2021). Virtual learning helped reduce the spread of the infection by limiting interaction among students. Moreover, things like zoom meetings have been comfortably accommodated, unlike before where people had to physically be there for the meeting. Also, the infection has contributed largely to the improvement of the health sector in that medical systems had to level up by buying improved machines and equipment to accommodate the pandemic. Further, as research is being conducted on the treatment of the infection, more vital information is discovered that is useful to the health sector.
Through Covid 19, most people worldwide have lost their jobs in the informal and formal sectors, especially in developing countries. The pandemic affected the employment sectors largely, and employers could not accommodate all their employees like before in terms of payment. The employers had to then find a tactic of reducing the number of their employees to only accommodate who they could pay. The young and less educated were the most affected when losing their jobs. Unemployment brought issues like lack of basic needs, depression, especially to the people that lost their jobs, and family breakups (Miguel et-al2021). Also, it increased crime rates and drug abuse as people would engage in illegal activities to survive. Due to being unemployed, people became idle; hence they started engaging in the usage of drugs.
The pandemic interrupted the education sector for two academic years. After the infection was announced, schools had to be closed to reduce the spread of the infection. Schools from developed countries sort out other options like online learning that saw their children go on with learning, unlike those from the developing countries (Loayza, & Pennings 2020). Education ministry stopped the continuation of the syllabus in the developing countries to favor every student as those from advanced schools could choose to study online. The decision from the ministry of education favored every student, especially those from local schools and poor families that could not afford digital gargets and data to study online. Students staying away from school for long brought such disadvantages as teenage pregnancies, increased school dropouts, and usage of drugs. The pandemic brought a huge disruption in the education sector that had it affected negatively.
In conclusion, the Covid 19 was a big threat worldwide, especially with developing countries. It disrupted activities in all sectors, from education, health, infrastructure to agriculture (Maliszewska, Mattoo, & Van Der Mensbrugghe,2020). However, it also had some positive impacts like improving the health sector and innovation and discovery. The negative effects that the pandemic brought were loss of jobs, disruption of the education sector, increased deaths, and many more.
References
Egger, D., Miguel, E., Warren, S. S., Shenoy, A., Collins, E., Karlan, D., … & Vernot, C. (2021). Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries. Science advances, 7(6), eabe0997.
Miguel, E., Warren, S. S., Shenoy, A., Collins, E., Karlan, D., … & Vernot, C. (2021). Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries. Science advances, 7(6), eabe0997.
Loayza, N., & Pennings, S. M. (2020). Macroeconomic policy in the time of COVID-19: A primer for developing countries. World Bank Research and Policy Briefs, (147291).
Maliszewska, M., Mattoo, A., & Van Der Mensbrugghe, D. (2020). The potential impact of COVID-19 on GDP and trade: A preliminary assessment. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, (9211).