Abstract

  The outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the world has negatively affected the African multisectorial pillars of the economy as well as agriculture which is regarded as a backborne of Africa. The crisis from a multisectorial perspective includes revenue losses, travel restrictions and cancellation of international flights. The spread of COVID-19 globally, has palarysed every facet of the economy. It has proved beyond doubt that COVID-19 affected the whole world and the developing countries will heavily feel the shocks. The aim of this paper is to understand multisectoral effects of COVID-19 through the detailed assessment of the pandemic from an African context. The paper adopted an extensive literature review in order to address the academic gap. This paper has established that COVID-19 will have short to long term negative impacts on African economies.

Keywords: COVID-19; Multisectorial; African Countries; Socio-Economic; GDP

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Citation

Citation: Munjeyi Edmore., et al. “Understanding the Multisectorial impacts of COVID-19 in Africa”. Acta Scientific Computer Sciences 2.7 (2020): 18-25.

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Copyright: © 2020 Munjeyi Edmore., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.