An Evaluation of the Impact of Ict on Covid-19 Health Awareness
An Evaluation of the Impact of Ict on Covid-19 Health Awareness
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Coronavirus (Covid-19) is an infectious illness that causes respiratory infections ranging from a common cold to severe respiratory difficulties. It began in December 2019 at the Hunan seafood market in Wuhan, China, where live bats, snakes, raccoon dogs, and other wild creatures were sold (Shereen et al., 2020), and the World Health Organization designated it a pandemic on March 11, 2020 (Shereen et al., 2020). (World Health Organization, 2020). The COVID19 outbreak posed a global burden as well as a transnational health hazard. By June 15, 2020, the epidemic had spread to over 200 countries, infecting over seven million people and generating a global health crisis that would cause fundamental societal upheavals. The...
