The Covid-19 affected millions of businesses around the worldamong them, the schools with their respective total and partial closures.
The emergence of the pandemic Covid-19 directly affected the economy worldwhere millions of businesses, brands and projects were affected in terms of income, resulting in a historic drop in gross domestic product.
In accordance with Statistical where it shows the impact of the pandemic on the world economy during 2020, China was the only country that managed to increase its GDP compared to previous years by 1.8 percent, while that of the United States fell by 3.7 percent, Brazil in 6 percent, France 9.1 percent, Mexico 9.2 percent and Argentina 12.9 percent, among other countries.
This caused the closure of businesses in different industries that do not go unnoticed, including schools. Taking into account that schools house millions of students daily for a considerable number of hours, they were forced to temporarily close their doors to avoid increasing the number of infections worldwide; however, some of them managed to continue their “daily” activities by adopting the online or hybrid education modality, while others were not fortunate enough to have the level of technology necessary to continue promoting education and have had to wait for return to normal.
Although some schools had the opportunity to adapt to the online modality and even others to the hybrid system, some parents decided that the best option was for their children to abandon their studies, either for economic or learning purposes, since they did not consider that this new format was just as effective as traditional classes, a fact that has mainly affected the learning of minors.
These types of factors where Covid-19 was the main protagonist, notoriously affected the school revenues around worldcausing some closures temporary and even permanent, in addition to efficient learning in children.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) shows in a study that more than 635 million students are still affected by the partial and total closures of their schools, causing up to 70 percent of 10-year-old children to be unable to read or understand a simple text, compared to 53 percent pre-pandemic.
Similarly, Statistical shows the longest-lasting Covid-19 school closures around the world, both total and partial (by weeks), with Uganda leading with 83 weeks, Bolivia with 82, India with 82, Nepal with 82, Honduras with 81 , Panama with 81 and El Salvador with 80 weeks of closure.
The closure of schools and the drop in the flow of students in these learning spaces have affected the economy of different industries and workers who worked in this environment, such as stationery items, those who were dedicated to sale of uniforms, their cooks, and the stores that kept selling to their students, among other areas of opportunity.
Similarly, the UNESCO He mentioned that at the end of 2020, the pandemic affected at least 63 million teachers, both in terms of quality investments, to acquire the digital and pedagogical skills necessary to teach remotely, and even in some cases their dismissal due to insufficient funds. .
Schools around the world were affected in terms of income, as well as other brands that saw students as an economic income.
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