Impact of COVID-19 on Social and Economic World: A Basic Statistics and ICT Skills Report

Basic Statistics and ICT skills
Report

TASK 1
INTRODUCTION
Due to covid-19, many people have faced challenges in their life, the present report will
be based on pandemic effects on social and economic world. The current discussion will include
the analysis of impact which present pandemic has created over working of country and overall
lifestyle of people. Nowadays, before implementing any decision people are more concerned
about corona virus pandemic. The current COVID 19 situation has created a negative impact on
the standard of living of people. Moreover, the study will also provide information relating to
data relating to death and impact which pandemic has created on healthcare sector. Moreover,
the discussion will be based impact of pandemic on social and economy as well.
Covid-19 in general
Due to pandemic, many people has suffered a lot of challenges which has impacted their life
drastically. The current pandemic has created negative impact over the working efficiency of
companies and the overall economy as well. Due to economic shutdown, many people have
faced unemployment, poverty, inflation and other issues (Bhattacharjee and Lisauskaite, 2020).
They have lost their jobs which eventually impacted their purchasing habits and this has
impacted their ability to purchase anything, especially basic necessities. With respect to the
economic shutdown the efficiency of economy has decreased which resulted in creating engatvie
impact on efficiency of employees and overall GDP of economy as well. In addition, in the year
2020 the death rate has also enhanced, this has shattered people of country and their mental
health. Moreover, the lockdown within the economy has resulted in variations in stock market as
well.

By evaluating the above chart, it is clear that in the year 2020-2021, there has been an
increasing death ratio, means many people lost their life due to corona pandemic. But major
steps taken by government and other management the number of death started to decline a little
bit in the end of year 2021.
Impact of covid-19 over healthcare in UK
Healthcare sector is most delicate and important industry among all, but this pandemic also
affected the health care sector of UK. The main reason behind this includes, due to first
lockdown the utilization of healthcare appliances and other tools was more and people were not
able to afford such costly techniques (Keogh-Brown and et.al., 2020). The another impact being
initiated by pandemic was the there was long waiting list of patient and appointment for medical
treatment as there were many people was suffering from high fever and illness called COVID-
19. Due to this, many people has suffered from mental health and depression by viewing the
situation outside world. Moreover, people were at home and by viewing news channels and
social message their mental health and anxiety level has increased this has also increased the
pressure on people. Due to this situation, there was an increase in the cases of anxiety and
depression in the year 2020.