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Anthony’s College
HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
San Jose de Buenavista, Antique 5007
IN PATNONGON, ANTIQUE
Covid 19 Pandemic
19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Most people infected with
the virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without
requiring special treatment. However, some will become seriously ill and require medical
attention. Older people and those with underlying medical conditions like cardiovascular
disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, or cancer are more likely to develop serious
illness. Anyone can get sick with COVID-19 and become seriously ill or die at any age.
pandemic since the 1918 flu pandemic. COVID19 was first reported in Wuhan, China,
and then spread around the world. The coronavirus has been officially named Severe
believed to be contagious from an animal coronavirus and later adapted its ability to be
transmitted from person to person. Because the virus is highly contagious, it spreads
rapidly and continues to evolve in the human population. (Yen Chin et al. 2020)
St. Anthony’s College
HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
San Jose de Buenavista, Antique 5007
The Philippine response to COVID19 has been described as one of the longest
and most stringent lockdowns in the world. Entire provinces and cities were closed,
mobility was restricted, and the use of masks and social distancing was strictly enforced.
The infractions were punished with punitive measures. The government relied heavily on
the police and military to ensure that order was maintained and all health protocols were
followed. This has led some observers and scholars to label the government’s response
pandemic COVID-19 in the Philippines and In whole wide world, people around the
world express panic in various behaviors (Nicomedes and Avila 2020). This affects the
economy of the county, social values, and psychological stress of the people involved
Pastor (2020) mentioned that the start of the extreme community quarantine in the
Philippines last March 2020 became the intervention of the government to slow down the
spread of the Coronavirus or more commonly known as COVID-19. The pandemic was
interfering many operations in the world which brought challenges to all affected
Pastor (2020) mentioned this to the sentiment of the Filipinos in the effect of
sentiment reveals that most of the Filipinos encountered several problems concerning
done bases on the requirement of the Filipinos who encounter problem in the food
shortage and everyone should support to flatten the curve in order for the operations and
considered as the most crucial global health calamity of the Century and the greatest
challenge that the humankind faced since the 2nd world war. The current outbreak of
COVID-19 has affected over 21644111 people and killed more than 146,198, people in
more than 200 countries throughout the world. Till now there is no report of any
clinically approved antiviral drugs or vaccines that are effected against COVID-19.It has
rapidly spread around the world, posing enormous health, economic, environmental and
social challenges to the entire human population. The coronavirus outbreak is severely
disrupting the global economy. Almost all the nations are struggling to slow down the
transmission of the disease by testing & treating patients, quarantining suspected persons
through contact tracing, restricting large gatherings, maintaining complete or partial lock
down etc.
Online Sellers
St. Anthony’s College
HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
San Jose de Buenavista, Antique 5007
According to Koo (2018) the cost of data storage, access, and transmission has
decreased dramatically as the economy has become more digital. Platform firms like
Amazon and Airbnb have built online marketplaces that have given individual
digital technologies. Much of the existing research on digital platforms demonstrates that
platforms can influence seller behavior through a range of reward and punishment
mechanisms, such as search ranking algorithms and surge pricing. However, a significant
portion of the difference in sellers' behavior can be related to characteristics in their local
surroundings, which are outside the platform's control. Many of their behavioral patterns
how vendors behave on digital platforms. Their actions, in turn, have a significant
societal impact on a platform's growth trajectory. As a result, both platform designers and
politicians must pay attention to sellers' diverse local surroundings in order to predict
Internet has become the opportunity for the sellers to add value to their products
and services. The key to attract more consumers and businesses to engage the benefits of
Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) are the phenomenal growth and rising of the
popularity of the internet. The transactions between parties are electronically rather than
by physical exchanges or direct physical contact. This has transformed the traditional
commerce and enhanced sales and exchanges of products and information. With the click
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HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
San Jose de Buenavista, Antique 5007
of mouse the availability of goods and services is changing the global setting (Aldin,
Using a mechanism design framework, Chen et al. (2020) demonstrate how the
live streaming platform can leverage information provision to improve its advertisement
revenue upon traditional position auctions. They develop an analytical framework that
consumer sophistication to investigate a firm’s live stream adoption strategy and offer
useful guidance for the firm on quality investment, pricing strategy, and influencer
selection.
major factor that influenced the consumer’s intentions to switch from offline to online
evaluation effort, and delivery time. Although Internet users can switch with relative ease
from one Web site to another that provides similar products and services, some
consumers seem to stick with specific Web sites (Gupta et al. 2004).
As the global COVID-19 pandemic grows in reach and breadth, the ramifications
for workers and labor markets become increasingly severe. Even the most cautious
consequences (McKibbin & Fernando 2020). For at least three reasons, online freelancers
particularly difficult scenario for them. First, because they do their business online, they
commitment between the employer and the worker (Wood et al. 2019). Finally, online
freelancers are susceptible in many nations due to their status as independent contractors,
income countries (LMICs) raises severe concerns about effective pandemic response and
The extant literature has situated the importance of e-commerce platforms that
facilitate virtual interactions and include informative and insightful product information
(Chandna and Salimath, 2018; Li et al., 2020) that consumers might consider to be
economic benefits (Zhang et al., 2017). Such that, firms can increase sales revenue as e-
commerce platforms help leverage existing consumers and attract new ones, build social
groups, and ensure compatibility with legacy systems (Lee et al., 2018), especially in
pandemic periods (Nielsen, 2020a, Nielsen, 2020b). In fact, Covid-19 has disrupted and
changed the business landscape as managers have been thrust into the position of
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HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
San Jose de Buenavista, Antique 5007
operating online supplies due to the reduction of in-person contact. However, the
literature has yet to address how e-commerce platforms can benefit both firms and
consumers during the pandemic. As a result, managers who seek to implement online
selling currently have no specific guidance to improve consumer intention for sustainable
consumption over time and circumstance (Guillen-Royo, 2019; Hernant and Rosengren,
2017).
Wuhan in December 2019 and quickly escalated into a pandemic, officially termed
wearing masks, working from home, social distancing and lockdown, have been issued to
limit physical interactions between citizens. People have accelerated their usage of ICT to
undertake daily tasks such as shopping in order to adapt to the setting of mobility limits
commerce without first understanding the factors that encourage online shopping. E-
commerce must establish the aspects that must be met, as well as the criteria they should
be consistent with. According to a study that looked into online purchasing, the shopping
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HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
San Jose de Buenavista, Antique 5007
experience and reasons led to high purchase intent. Another study found that attitude and
a shift in customers’ attitudes toward making online purchases are important aspects of
online purchasing.
virtual interactions and contain relevant and insightful product information that customers
may view to be economic benefits. As a result, businesses can enhance sales revenue by
leveraging existing customers and attracting new ones, creating social groups, and
ensuring compatibility with older systems, especially during pandemics. In reality, due to
the loss of in-person contact, Covid-19 has disrupted and transformed the company
landscape. Managers have been forced to operate online supply, which has disrupted and