The world is on the peak of its saddest moments in history with the emergence of COVID -19, which has caused crisis and suffering in the health sector. Since its advent, the disease has spread human suffering, led to several deaths, and has also upended the lives of people. While the majority of people have deemed the impact of the disease more of health-related, the effects of the disease have spread to other areas of life such as human, economic and social (He & Lloyd, 35). Since its day of emergence, the disease has attacked the societies to the core and has continued to establish its influence and severe effects on many areas of social life. In particular, sports activities have been curtailed while learning and worshipping centers all closed down. Covid-19 has created detrimental effects on social lives with social activities terminated, learning institutions closed and worshipping services terminated.
One of the social areas that the effects of Covid-19 have been heavily felt is the sport’s sector. Considered as one of the major contributors to the economy and social development, the emergence of COVID-19 has curtailed most of the sport’s activities. COVID-19 has spread to almost all countries and with the fear of rapid spreading, most of the countries have closed all the sport’s activities (Helmich, Rick, & Bastiaan, 14). Most of the sport’s activities require close contact hence the measures related to social and physical put to curtail the disease imply interruption of the sports activities. More so, most of the policies enacted by the sport’s leading executives and management require all sports to be closed down to curtail the spread of the disease. Since sport is a major aspect of social life, the emergence of the COVID-19 has curtailed most of the activities related to sports which have not gone well with the normal lifestyle.
The effects of COVID-19 have also spread to the education sector which is a powerful element of social life. The disease has affected most of the learning activities throughout the world with most of the learning institutions closed down. Most of the countries implemented the closedown measures of schools to control the spread of the disease with the fear that failure to close the school would result in more cases (Helmich et al., 14). The closedown has not gone well with learning activities since new learning plans have to be implemented to catch up with the lost time. Also, usual learning schemes, timetables and activities have to be revised to ensure smooth continuity and transition. These disruptions and effects have been wholly linked with COVID-19.
The effects of COVID-19 have also been felt to the religious sector where all the worshipping centres have been closed down. Like learning institutions, various measures have been taken to contain the disease which has affected the religious sector in many ways. Worshipping services have been cancelled while Sunday schools and Madrassa have been shut down along with religious activities and events such as festivals. These were activities that were running normally and it is after the emergence of the disease that they were disrupted. The effect is also felt within this domain since the normal ways of worship have been disrupted with many worshipping institutions like churches, mosques, and temples forced to settle for live stream worship which is against the will of many.
Generally, COVID-19 has put the social life into the real test with little information known about its end and containment. While many areas of life have been put to test, social life remains one of the major areas of life that has been affected. Ranging from interrupting sport’s activities to the closure of learning and worshipping centres, COVID-19 remains a real test-of- time pandemic. As a result, there is the need to find measures and ways of safeguarding these affected areas since it is manpower that continues to suffer at the hands of this harsh pandemic.