Author : Lloyd george banda, blessings kamanga
Keyword : Coronavirus, covid-19, ebola, influenza, gdp, supply & demand shocks, hunger
Subject : Social sciences
Article Type : Case report
DOI : 10.2139/ssrn.3694911
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Abstract : On January 30, 2020 the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Since December 2015, COVID-19 has claimed 928,890 deaths as of 15 September, 20201. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), has swiftly evolved and spread across all the countries in the world. The spread of the new coronavirus is a public health crisis that has posed a serious risk to the macroeconomy through the halt in production activities, interruptions of people’s movements and cut-off supply chains. On 2 April, 2020, the then president of the republic of Malawi, Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika confirmed the first 3 cases of COVID-19 in the country. There are now 5,701 cases, 3,762 recoveries and 178 Deaths as of 15th September 20202. This paper seeks to integrate the historical effects of global pandemic outbreaks such as 1918 Global Influenza, Ebola and SARS to Coronavirus. A little emphasis is positioned on the panic and havoc in Malawi as a result of coronavirus, such as disruption of supply-chain due to sudden decrease in aggregate demand.
Article by : Lloyd George Banda
Article add date : 2021-09-02
How to cite : Lloyd george banda, blessings kamanga. (2021-September-02). The global economic effects of pandemic outbreak, covid-19 in malawi. retrieved from https://www.openacessjournal.com/abstract/835