Effects of COVID 19 on economy companies and difference between Corona, Ebola and Spanish flu

Effects of COVID 19 on economy and companies and difference between Corona, Ebola and Spanish flu:

Since the appearance of the first case of COVID 19 in China, the world still suffer from this pandemic, this disease that has exhausted and disrupted the world, just like Ebola and the Spanish flu in previous decades.

In this article, we will show you statistics for each disease while comparing between them.

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Let's start with a definition of each disease

Corona COVID 19 is a disease of the SARS family that affects the lungs, so it is a respiratory disease, caused by a SARS-Cov-2 virus.

Ebola, a disease caused by a virus called Ebola, it is a somewhat rare disease comparing with COVID 19. This disease first appeared in 1976 in Nzara (South Sudan) and Yambuku (Democratic Republic of the Congo ).

The Spanish Flu, is a disease caused by the flu A (H1N1) virus, it spread between 1918 and 1919. It is called Spanish Flu because Spain is the only country that has published information on this disease although the first of this disease appeared in the United States.

The statistics of each disease are as followed

Corona COVID 19

The total number of people infected is 60.978 million cases, the United state leading with 14.314 million cases followed by India with 9.534 M cases, and Brazil with 6.436 M cases. The countries that have more than one million cases are in the following figure:

The general world statistics are as followed:

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Ebola

The general statistics of this pandemic are as followed:

Number of cases (Ebola)
Total cases	28000
Deaths	11000
Recovered	10000

So the death rate is 39.29%

Spanish flu

Spanish Flu is a fatal disease and the general statistics are as follows:

Number of cases (Spanish flu)
Total cases	500 000 000
Deaths	Between 20 and 100 Million
Recovered	No data

COVID 19 and the economy

The big problem with COVID 19 is that it arrived in the time of rapid transport (planes, cars, trains ... .), which helped him reach out to the whole world.

Health is not the only sector which has been affected by COVID 19, there are even effects on the economic world are:

• Economies of many countries are affected by this disease,

• Many companies are closing,

• The increase in the prices of imported products in all countries,

• The price of oil and gas has been affected and decreased by the effect of this disease,

• Many companies have relied on remote work (telecommuting),

• The emergence of a large number of poor due to the loss of their jobs,

• The increase in the economy and turnover of entertainment companies and films and video games such as Netflix, Playstation….

Netfelix alone has seen an increase in the use of its app, where it saw 16 million new customers between January and March and a 57% and 34% increase in Italy and Spain respectively during the lockdown period.
Disney suffered an estimated loss of 1.4$ billion after its amusement parks were closed due to containment measures.
Among companies that have seen an increase are:

Company	Change in turnover	Note
Netflix	+55,1 Billions of Euros	16 million new customers
Amazon	+401,1 Billions of Euros
Microsoft	+269,9 Billions of Euros	+ 15%
Facebook	+85,7 Billions of Euros	+18%
Apple	+219,1 Billions of Euros
Johnson & Johnson	+3.95 Billions of Euros	+3.3%
Tesla	+108,4 Billions of Euros
Nvidia	+83,3 Billions of Euros
PayPal	+65,4 Billions of Euros
Shopify	+51,4 Billions of Euros

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