A Detailed Report: Social and Economic Impacts of COVID-19

This report examines the profound socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on its effects on the UK. It details the challenges faced by individuals and businesses due to lockdowns, including increased unemployment, economic shutdown, and strain on the healthcare sector. The report analyzes the rise in death rates, mental health issues, and the impact on social life, highlighting the role of technology in mitigating social isolation. It also discusses the pandemic's impact on various industries, such as hospitality, retail, and transportation. The report concludes by summarizing the government's efforts to reduce the pandemic's impact and emphasizes the shift towards digital learning environments to enhance student knowledge.

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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.

Source: (Impact of covid-19, 2022).
Impact of COVID-19 over the economy of UK
Due to lockdown, the UK economy is being negatively impacted and this has also shattered
many people. This is because of the reason that the pandemic has resulted in economic shutdown
and resultantly business operations of the companies and overall economic condition were
affected (Sherif, 2020). Due to this, many people lost their jobs, and there was reduction in
employment of people, this has impacted their purchasing power and many companies has to
shut down their businesses because they have suffered huge loss (Su and et.al., 2021). In
addition, there was increase in unemployment rate, inflation, interest rate and other factors.

By evaluating the above mentioned chart, it has been clearly identified that there is an
increase in unemployment rate, which has impacted the basic life of people because now they are
not able to satisfy their needs due to pandemic lockdown. With the research it is clear that there
is increase in level of unemployment by the January 2020. By understanding the chart, it has
been analysed that unemployment is rising as a result of lockdown If people are not having job
they will not be able to purchase anything such as groceries items and other basic requirement.
Moreover, all types of industries in UK economy were affected negatively by the covid-19
pandemic whether it is hospitality sector, retail industry, healthcare sector and transportation.

Impact of COVID-19 on social life
The current virus has given negative impact on lifestyle of all persons in terms of offering
inability to meet social requirements, as they are not able to gather together and do not
communicate with each other. According to reports, the impact of pandemic has impacted well-
being of the most of the people includes college going students, health workers, children (Murray
and et.al., 2021). This is because government has passed the order to make social distance in
order to maintain social well-being and health of people. There is rise in government restriction
which has forced people to maintain distance people who are infected for their personal heaths
safety. This has outcome in lack of social gathering which were considered to crucial for gaining
mental peace and created differentiation among people. Also many companies have announced
work from home facilities, this has also created communication gap between employees of the
firm.
However, thanks to technology and telephone services devices like mobile phones and other
gadgets has decrease the negative effects of the lockdown. With the help of telephones, emails,
messages and other communication methods, people can easily talk with each other and share
their feelings/empathy over the phone (Nicola and et.al., 2020). There was also other way to
communicate which has helped people to keep balance in their social life via taking use of social
media platform such as Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and message. This was the best way for
people in overcoming pressured raised due to lockdown and assisted in spending time for their
learning abilities, working on skills, improving areas of development and other creativity.
Also, during lockdown mobility of people were restricted that has adversely impacted the
motivational level of person and created dissatisfaction about the life.

CONCLUSION
To conclude, recent adverse situation of covid 19 has influenced people’s efficiency &
their ability to work. Due to this, there has been a major impact on economic, social, healthcare
and transportation sector. However, government has taken major steps to reduce the impact of
pandemic over these sectors such as self-care guidelines, guidelines on wear mask and using
sanitizers.

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