Post-Corona World: The Effects of COVID-19 on Economic, Social and Academic Life

No doubt that the year 2020 is likely to be one of the turning points in the twenty-first century as well as in the world history. A new type of coronavirus called COVID-19 has erupted in the last days of 2019 in Wuhan, China. The virus rapidly spread throughout the world, hence what started as epidemic in the beginning soon turned into a pandemic. Millions of people became infected and hundreds of thousands of them have died because of the virus, which seems to bring certain unavoidable changes in our lives. This study investigates some of the possible changes in economic, social, and academic life in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.