COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on Livelihoods and Global Systems Research

This essay examines the widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on various aspects of life, including health, safety, livelihoods, and food systems. It highlights the devastating economic and social disruptions caused by the pandemic, with millions facing job losses and challenges to their mental and physical well-being. The shift to remote work, while offering flexibility, also presents challenges such as workspace organization and managing work-life balance. The essay further discusses government interventions to support affected populations and businesses. The pandemic has disrupted cultural events, travel, and education, with children facing challenges due to school closures and postponed examinations. The research concludes that the pandemic has significantly impacted living standards and recommends following government guidelines and focusing on work to mitigate the negative effects. Desklib provides access to this document and many more student resources.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION and RECOMMENDATION..................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
The project is based on contemporary research in which how COVID 19 has influences
the lives of people is determined. The pandemic has created a great impact on the lives of people
as face various challenges related to health, safety, world of work and food systems. Due to
pandemic the economic and social disruption has caused is devastating. In the crisis, nearly half
of the world are at risk of loosing livelihoods.
TASK
The chosen topic for this project is related to coronavirus and their affect ion the lives of
people. There is no doubt that pandemic has influenced the performance and growth of business
and also create an impact on the lives of people. Pandemic has affected the entire food system
and placed millions of livelihood jobs at risk. People are facing challenges related to health and
safety. Due to risk of job, the mental and physical health of people are getting affected they are
taking stress and depression while staying at home. Women, people with chronic disease and
young adults who have lost the jobs are mostly affected with the pandemic. COVID 19 lock
down has changed the way of working of employees as they are working remotely from home.
The work from home opportunity provide various challenges for employees such as organising
the workspace, coping with work isolation, managing boundaries between work and non-work
and establishing new communication. Government also playing important role in supporting the
people by transferring cash, offering healthy school meals, supporting employment retention and
recovery, financial relief for business and offering child allowances (Chriscaden, 2020).
The pandemic has influenced the day to day life of people, business and also disrupted
the movement and world trade. In pandemic people are shifting towards online platform rather
than focusing on going out from home to buy the products and services. Due to pandemic, there
is a disruption of celebration of cultural, festive and religious events and also the service sector is
not able to provide their services. When companies are not able to provide services, people are
getting irritated and also their demand are not getting fulfilled (Blake and Wadhwa, 2020).
People are also avoiding national and international travelling and cancellation of services.
Children's are also facing challenges as they are not able to go school and study effectively.
There examinations are also getting postpone due to which their morale and motivation level gets
influenced.

CONCLUSION and RECOMMENDATION
It is being concluded from the above information that pandemic has influenced the living
standard and lives of people due to which they are facing lot of problem in order to survive. The
pandemic has impacted the global population drastically due to which people are facing most
threats and challenges. They cannot go outside from home until and unless if they don't have any
urgent piece of work.
From the above information it is being recommended that in order to improve the live of
people it is important to follow the instructions of government and also focus on their work
rather than focusing on any irrelevant information related to pandemic.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Blake, P and Wadhwa, D., 2020. 2020 Year in Review: The impact of COVID-19 in 12 charts.
[Online]: Available Through :<https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/2020-year-review-
impact-covid-19-12-charts>
Chriscaden, k., 2020. Impact of COVID-19 on people's livelihoods, their health and our food
systems. [Online]: Available Through :< https://www.who.int/news/item/13-10-2020-
impact-of-covid-19-on-people's-livelihoods-their-health-and-our-food-systems>