COVID-19 AND ONLINE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN PAKISTAN

 COVID-19                                                                         

 Coronavirus is an infectious disease. The  first  case  of  covid-19  was discovered in China city's named Wuhan. Because it's the first case that was discovered at the end of 2019 that's this virus called covid-19. The World Health Organization (WHO) recognized Covid-19 as a pandemic on 11-March-2020. Due to Covid-19 your lungs might become inflamed making it tough to breathe. This can lead to pneumonia. Many countries begin to produce and purchase vaccines for covid-19.

 But patients can recover from coronavirus without any vaccine just to isolate themselves. Coronavirus is transmitted from one person to another through droplets

which are generated when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or exhales.  The most common symptoms include fever, dry cough, and tiredness. Serious symptoms are difficulty in breathing or shortness of breath, chest pain, the pressure loss of speech or movement. Other symptoms may include headache, sore throat, loss of smell or taste or diarrhea, etc. Wear a mask, wash your hands frequently, use sanitizers, and most importantly avoid gathering and apply social distancing from others to protect yourself from covid-19.

Coronavirus situation in Pakistan

Now we will discuss covid-19 in Pakistan. Coronavirus situation in Pakistan is different from other countries. In Pakistan, most of the people's think coronavirus is not a pandemic. They didn't believe that there was any coronavirus and even now most of them still think covid-19 is nothing when there are almost 5 lac cases and more than 10k deaths. However, the government of Pakistan worked extremely hard to stop the spread of coronavirus and also got plenty of success due to their good strategy and thinking which were appreciated all around the world. Now the second wave of coronavirus taking many peoples towards death. Although, the active cases in Pakistan are only above 40k and the death ratio is only 2% but covid-19 still taking away many important lives from us.Covid-19 leads Pakistan to an economic crisis. The economic situation in Pakistan is not good at all as there is poverty, fewer job opportunities, ignorance, and many other issues. However, there is also some positive sights of covid-19. Due to lockdown and other strictness men are able to give more time to the family which they didn't due to their responsibilities and restless work. Coronavirus gives them an opportunity to spend more time with their families and have some fun with them.

COVID-19 AND EDUCATION SYSTEM

Covid-19 causes major difficulties in the educational system. Due to lockdown schools, colleges, universities and other educational institutes remain closed. Therefore, the government announces to introduce an online education system for the matric and inter level for the first time. Universities also delivering online education to students. Pakistani students experience online education for the first time. Therefore, students faced many difficulties as they were not used to it. Most of them are not interested in the online education system and the majority of them are not attending online classes because they are not used to it. Exams did not take place in 2020 due to lockdown as covid-19 was at its peak. However, when we look at the other side many positive things are there.  As the first experience of online education, students learned a lot about social media. This will help to enter the world of social media and will help our youth to build a digital Pakistan. As our youth linked with the internet and social media, this creates many opportunities for E-COMMERCE. Now our youth starts to prefer online business over the routine business. This will guide our youth to the modern world and will help them to play their role in developing a digital Pakistan.

Written BY: Muhammad Yadish (Student)