Covid-19 Pandemic as an Extreme Event: Effects, Reactions, Consequences

Authors

  • Yurii Boreiko Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University
  • Tetiana Fedotova Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University

Keywords:

pandemic, event, society, crisis, transformation, challenge, counteraction

Abstract

Based on an interdisciplinary approach, the article comprehends the manifestations, deployments, and current consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic through the prism of society’s reactions and responses to the effects caused by the pandemic. The spread of the pandemic led to the formation of a new reality that manifests itself on the personal-existential and social levels of human existence. The pandemic causes constitutive signs of the extraordinary state of society, which is illustrated by the economic crisis, reduced efficiency of social institutions, changes in value and regulatory structures, restrictions on the citizens’ rights and freedoms. The coronavirus crisis is accompanied by a significant number of deaths and injuries, psychological and somatic risks, disproportionate security resources distribution, social inequality exacerbation, financial and reputational losses. At the same time, the pandemic is a generator of the development of means to combat coronavirus infection, which is manifested in the invention of vaccines and drugs.

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2021-06-16

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Boreiko, Y., & Fedotova, T. (2021). Covid-19 Pandemic as an Extreme Event: Effects, Reactions, Consequences. European Journal of Transformation Studies, 9(2), 125–142. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/journal-transformation/article/view/7092

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