Research Report on Coronavirus

Running head: RESEARCH REPORT ON CORONAVIRUS
RESEARCH REPORT ON CORONAVIRUS
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Introduction
COVID-19 is identified as a recently discovered disease, which is an outcome of the
spread of the coronavirus (Who.int 2020). The virus is believed to have its origin in the wet
markets of the Wuhan district in China. The disease has spread throughout the world in
countries throughout all the continents. In this regard, it may be mentioned that Canada like
any other country having reported cases of the coronavirus infection has suffered a negative
impact in terms of the business operations in several industries. The report will further
evaluate the impact of the public emergency of the coronavirus on the local and national
hospitality sector of Canada, as well as the international tourism industry. The public
emergency has had an impact on the operations at the organization I am currently placed in,
namely Desi Bites. Desi Bites is one of the widely recognized restaurants in the Surrey region
of Canada, specializing in Indian flavored foods. The various services offered by the
restaurant include catering for large and small events like weddings, holiday parties,
graduations, corporate parties, executive events and the like (Desibites.ca 2020). In the event
of the public emergency, the restaurant has currently stopped its operations in response to the
recent deaths of three patients suffering from the coronavirus disease. Individuals living in
the area have been advised to restrict themselves from going out of their homes so as to
control the further spreading of the disease. The impact of this event on Desi Bites and the
hospitality industry on a local and national front will be discussed in the following sections.
Placement Analysis
Owing to the worldwide spread of the pandemic of the coronavirus disease, the
governments from all over the world have taken actions in order to protect the citizens and
prevent the disease from spreading any further (Mayberry, Varshalomidze and Siddiqui
2020). The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau initially restricted travelling in and from

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the country and urged the people to remain at their homes in quarantine. The province of
British Columbia has been recognized as one of the most worst affected areas with the
contamination of the coronavirus (Scmp.com 2020). For this purpose, the business
organizations were advised to stop their operations and maintain a complete lockdown
(Nationalobserver.com 2020). This measure was taken in order to ensure the safety and
protection of all the employees, managers as well as the customers who engaged in business
transactions with these organizations.
Following the order of the Canadian government, Desi Bites also followed the
procedure of the lockdown by stopping its business operations temporarily until the public
emergency is controlled. Before the coronavirus pandemic situation was declared as a public
emergency in Canada, the supervisors and managers of the restaurant made the employees
aware of the outbreak of the disease and advised any individual suffering from any
respiratory problems to stay at home until they recovered completely. The absence of a few
employees suffering from flu directly resulted in an increase of responsibilities on the other
members. However, with the declaration of the public emergency, all the employees and staff
of the restaurant were informed about the lockdown situation directly in person on the last
working day as well as through an official statement sent to each of the employees via email.
Before the declaration of a complete lockdown, the restaurant had taken special
measures to ensure the safety and protection of the employees as well as the customers.
Bottles of sanitizers were provided on each table in the restaurant for the usage of the
customers. For takeaways, the restaurant provided sachets of sanitizers and adequate tissue
papers. The employees were also advised to wash their hands after each interaction with the
customers. However, after the declaration of the public emergency, several catering services
had to be cancelled by the restaurant. The customers were explained the reasons for
cancellation in detail and a certain percentage from the advance payments were reimbursed