Importance of Technology in the Days of Coronavirus Pandemic

Importance of Technology in the Days of Coronavirus Pandemic

Madhura Kartik Naidu
DOI: 10.4018/IJICTHD.2021010101
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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only affected the common man's life, but it has also affected many science, space, and technology institutions and government agencies all over the world. It has also resulted in reduced productivity of human beings and affected several organizations and government programs. The normal life of human beings came under a lot of restrictions and pressure due to lockdown. Many people lost their jobs and suffered financially as well as emotionally. The contribution of science and technology in this period of coronavirus crisis is key for facing current health challenges. Technological fields like data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence have majorly contributed towards COVID-19. The present study aims to discuss the advancement and importance of technology used worldwide to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic at different levels.
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Corona Virus Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

It is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020 and a pandemic in March 2020. As of 29 November 2020, more than 62.6 million cases have been confirmed, with more than 1.45 million deaths attributed to COVID-19. (Wikipedia, COVID-19 pandemic)

Although the Coronavirus pandemic has posed numerous challenges to the international economy and our daily lives, we can also observe a lot of creativity and innovation emergent at the national, institutional as well as individual levels within the countries affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Various Innovative Approaches To Fight Against Coronavirus

The various technological innovations and scientific approaches developed to face coronavirus pandemic can be arranged into the following categories.

Curbing or Fighting Against the Spread of Wrong Information

It creates more fright and worries among the masses when some wrong information is spread about the number of deaths, diagnosis, treatment, vaccines, or the decisions made by the government. As a result, there can be widespread confusion among the people and they can start buying and stocking essential commodities, this further result in low availability of the products to the actual needy ones, price rise, display of retaliation on the streets, discrimination, political conspiracies, and so on. In order to avoid all these online business companies like Facebook and Google are guiding people to the correct information given by the World Health Organization. YouTube is also making accurate information available to everybody by creating a transparent scenario and keeping people informed about the right steps to be taken in such situations. These internet giants are united to help National Health Service to fight the spread of fake information about the pandemic.

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