Paris: The most basic daily activities, starting to work for shopping and going to school, has been completely changed during the Covid-19 pandemic, and may never be the same again.
When the world marked almost two years since China announced the first death of Covid-19 a 61-year-old man in Wuhan on January 11, 2020, this is seeing how our lives are basically changed by the virus.
– WFH – When the virus marched throughout the world, the government ordered residents to remain in forcing the billions of people to hastily set up a home office.
The remote worked, working from home (WFH) all quickly became a staples in our new vernacular pandemis.
Even when locking subsides, working from home at least some time remains the norm for many people.
In 2021, the percentage of people working remotely reached 32 percent, up from only 17 percent in 2019, according to the Gartner consulting company.
For others, the pandemic encourages work changes or demanding better conditions.
In the United States, tens of thousands of workers from hospitals to Hollywood walked out of work last year in a movement dubbed “striketober” to protest long and bad working hours.
– Boom e-commerce – with billions of bunkers at home, businesses of all kinds must be quickly pivot, and online sales for everything starting from food to food, clothing, and furniture quickly booming.
Online sales rose 38 percent in the first third of 2021 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to Adobe Digital Economy Index.
Even bringing some online buyers for the first time that will not leave soon, Gaelle Le Firm from the Consultant Consultant Company to AFP.
“We see new customers, more senior citizens, who are ordinary buyers,” he said.
– Plane, train and bicycle – between the closure of the border and restriction of travel, the tourism sector was hit by a pandemic.
Experts warn the air and train industry may not return to normal before 2024.
The worst air travel, with traffic around the world fell two thirds in 2020.
At the end of 2021, it only reached half of the level of 2019 as the restriction of travel remained in place in many countries.
Even when the trip takes after the initial locking, chaos remains the norm at the airport because passengers march to show through vaccines or negative covid tests.
Cities around the world also see a decline in public transportation such as trains because of fear of the spread of the virus and because more people remain at home.
Cycling grows in popularity but so pointing by car.
– Zoom learning – When adults remain at home to work, as well as students, with hundreds of millions of children and adolescents suddenly enter zoom and other platforms for online classes.
UNESCO, Culture and UN Education Authority, has been called the worst education crisis pandemic.
School systems in most countries see at least several complete closing periods.
The worst impact has been in low and medium-income countries where 53 percent of children have suffered due to lack of access to school.
The proportion can increase to 70 percent, according to the World Bank.
In some parts of the world including Brazil, Pakistan, India, South Africa and Mexican decreased mathematics and significant reading have been reported.
– Hunger and health care – Pandemic has caused the biggest increase in Hunger throughout the world in 15 years, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The number of people who did not have enough meals increased by 18 percent over the past year, the agency said.
Extended problems beyond food access, because additional 20 million people fall into extreme poverty in 2021, according to the UN Agency Ocha.
Pandemic also keeps the health system into chaos and slows the progress of the campaign to eradicate other diseases that destroy the poorest population in the world, such as HIV and TB.