The Impact and Role of Mass Media during the Coronavirus Pandemic

CORONAVIRUS
GLOBAL DISEASE-
THE IMPACT AND
ROLE OF MASS
MEDIA DURING
THE PANDEMIC

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
Rationale of the research:.................................................................................................................1
Literature review:.............................................................................................................................2
Research methodology.....................................................................................................................5
Resources:........................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
Ethical Review Form: Part 1............................................................................................................9
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Ethical Review Form: Part 2..........................................................................................................10
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Title: “To analyse the impact coronavirus global disease and its role of mass media during the
pandemic”.
INTRODUCTION
COVID-19 is a global pandemic which is generally a infectious disease cause by group of
virus. This disease is generally caused by Wuhan in the hubei province of china in December
2019. it is spread between 210 countries is very rapid mode. The world health organisation
(WHO) declared it as pandemic in various countries. A number of population is affected due to
this infection and still going on as per the survey and details approx 13 million people are
affected by this COVID-19 at April 2020. this disease primary affect the respiratory system with
the symptoms are like fever, cough, and mild shortness of breath causing the failure of
respiration. And also for long is may cause the death. Their is no any treatment and medication is
prepared but research are going on. The role of media in this is like they reported that the virus is
originated through the Huang seafood's market. Present research report deals with analysis of
covid impact and the role of media in this situation. There has been use of both primary and
secondary sources of information to achieve the laid down objectives of the research report.
Rationale of the research:
The research is based on analysis done by the Researcher on role of media in COPVID
situation. Since the origin of the virus is from wuhan in china. So, media called is china virus or
Wuhan virus. It was called 2019-Covid and then finally as per the World health organisation
named it Covid-19. World leader usually called it Chinese virus and media rapidly reflected the
way it is affecting different geographical locations across the world. There is mainly application
of available secondary sources of information in the present research word in order to achieve
the laid objectives.
Aim:
“To examine the impact coronavirus global disease and its role of mass media during the
pandemic”
Objectives:
The objectives of the present research are mentioned below:
 To evaluate the impact of corona virus as a global pandemic
 Effect of corona virus on different industries
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 To evaluate the Role of mass media during the pandemic
Literature review:
Evaluate the impact of corona virus as a global pandemic
According to maria cohut, 2020 the world has been affected by the COVID 19 pandemic.
There have been development of unforeseen challenges that has been cause because of the
significant tool for people across different parts of the world. There have been 2,70,000
confirmed cases across globe (Grover, and et.al., 2020). As per the latest reports there have been
maximum confirmed cases on United states. France, span and India. In the initial stages many
countries declared some of the restrictive measures to deal with this situations that includes
deferring responses and timelines response that has lead to people wondering of the authorities
have failed to address this situation. China has appeared to manage this situations in the most
effective manner by travel brand and in January 23 Chinese authorities have declared a nation
wide travel brand as some experts have suggest that they could have averted over 700,000 covid
cases in their city. China eased to lock-down measures in Wuhan that was the original epicentre
of this virus breakdown.
There was a stage of emergency that was place across the whole world. In Italy the lock-down
was extended to may and European countries have also hit hard by such lock-down situations.
Apart from the physical damage & issues that has been cause by covid pandemic there has been
complete distraction on the mental health of individuals such as people have been going through
situations of depression and isolation because of the Lock-down scenario where they are locked
in their homes and are not allowed to move out (COVID-19 global impact: How the coronavirus
is affecting the world, 2020).
Effect of corona virus on different industries
Accordance with the views of Prateek saxena, 2020 corona virus pandemic has hit 6.8
million lives with deaths that have been numbered to 397,000 across globe. In UK the
coronavirus death have surpassed by 127,000 ion number. In past few months it has been first
headlines that have affected the whole situation (Li, Xue, and Zhao, 2020). Different industries
have been affected by the pandemic in most different manner but is is true that there has been a
negative impact on the overall situation. In case of manufacturing and the logistic. Out of survey
1 out of 5 top manufacturing industry is relying on Chinese markets. It has been identified that
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