• The global impact of COVID-19 is immense and still not predictable yet. Thousands of workers have lost their jobs, migrant workers are repatriated, schools are closed, roads are blocked, and the global cooperation under the name of UN, WHO, or other international organizations is not easy to be found.  But feud among countries seems to be new normal in the global society, along the many other changes caused by the pandemic. Tracking the characteristic aspects of COVID-19 and dissecting the global impacts are becoming more and more important as the virus is not expected to fade out sooner or later. The global society should be prepared all together to fight against this crisis. 

• ARIC is analyzing COVID-19 in three different ways. 

First, ARIC has constructed COVID-19 databases to track the status of COVID-19 around the world. The database is also linked with ARIC's country profile database enabling us to analyze how socio-economic conditions are linked with the status of COVID-19. Data collection and analysis are done using the open API and SAS. 

Second, ARIC starts the COVID-19 country report series. The report is titled "The trend, impacts, and post-COVID19 challenges" and provides the detailed information how each country respond to COVID-19 and what challenges they face. All reports are developed with local experts and open platform base. More than 20 countries' report have been progressed.

Third, ARIC plans to publish books and papers to theorize what we have learned from COVID-19.  In particular, ARIC is much interested in issues related to developing countries and their responses. 

• ARIC director Kilkon Ko participated Corona Talk Series as an speaker

• Topic: Things that go against common sense regarding COVID-19 

• Date: Aug, 24(Mon)