MA6072
BUSINESS ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT NO 1
JERRY SHAHNIZAL BIN AB AZIZ
METRIC: P116914
Background
Since the Covid-19 reported first case in Wuhan way back in December 2019 (WHO), world
community and World Health Organization (WHO) consciously monitored the development
of this newly virus whether it can affect global health and turn into the biggest global pandemic
in 21th century. Starting with confirmed cluster case at the market in Wuhan which is said to
be caused by bats, then it spread to the whole of Wuhan and then to other provinces in China.
Since then, the virus has spread around the world starting with Thailand (WHO) and later
spread fast globally. To date after 2 years, a total of 470,839,745 @ 470 million have been
infected with a total of 6,092, 933 @ 6.1 million deaths (WHO) and involving a total of 225
countries (BBC)
This pandemic not only involved a global health crisis since the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918
which killed 50 million people (Wikipedia), but also involved a global economic crisis where
curfews and movement controls were declared in many countries which left the economic
sector severely and badly affected. However, because the virus spreads rapidly due to the nature
of the virus which is easy to infect human to human same as flu. As stated by John Hopkins
Medicine, coronavirus is spread through droplets and virus particles released into the air
