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or company should close down to prevent disease spreading throughout the world.

According to the analysis, conducted by foreign policy research institute in the U.S

in 2020, unemployment is shooting up far faster than it did during the 2008

recession, a sign of the economy is headed toward a recession. Even the GDP(gross

domestic product) level of entertainment, recreation, and restaurant were almost

close to zero which had constituted 4.2% of total GDP. The reason is that

restaurants and movie theaters closed. Because of closing restaurants or

entertainment facilities by COVID-19, we are restricted in our daily life. For example,

in Singapore, the government forces citizens to follow the circuit breaker which

must not go out except for a necessary situation, until the terrible situation gets

stable. If we face severe pandemic, most of our lives are disturbed and even we

can lose our jobs. While viruses mutate, the damage we get towards our lives such

as the economy would become larger.

While our civilization is getting developed and prospered, such as technology,

economy, and so on, it is easier to access other countries and places rather than

the past. Nowadays, It is a common thing to trade or to travel by airplane, ship or

train. Therefore, when viruses outbreak, viruses diffuse easily through various ways

along with the transportations. And this access is gradually developed, which causes

faster infectious rate over the world in the future. According to the survey

conducted by SKIS Science research team in 2020, 4 out of 10 high-school students

predicted that the rate of the spreading of future contagious viruses will be faster.

COVID-19 is a disease caused by the coronavirus that emerged in China in

December 2019. The novel coronavirus can be spread from person to person by a

slaver and it causes severe respiratory diseases. Viruses usually appear abruptly, so

it is hard to cope immediately. We do not have sufficient technology and vaccines;

we have to produce new vaccines whenever a virus comes out. Even it usually takes

10 to 15 years to develop or examine new vaccines until we can take those. Because

of COVID-19, many people have been infected all over the world and have died;

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