COVID-19 and Economy

Dermatologic Therapy

Gupta, Mrinal; Abdelmaksoud, Ayman; Jafferany, Mohammad; Lotti, Torello; Sadoughifar, Roxanna; Goldust, Mohamad

Dear Editor,

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which originated from Wuhan, China, has spread to more than 125 countries s of the world infecting more than 100 000 population.1Apart from being a global health concern, COVID-19 is having major consequences on the world economy, and experts have predicted that COVID-19 will lower global gross domestic product growth by one-half a percentage point for 2020 (from 2.9% to 2.4%). The whole world is now a single global community, where any major happening in one part is bound to have repercussions in rest of the world.

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Ethics, social science, economics