A Fight Against COVID-19: Major IT Trends

Abstract

Mankind has faced various major pandemic situations in history but this outburst of COVID-19 broke every record. This is a war with an invisible evil which is very strong and yet uncontrollable. Most of the people with low immunity died due to this virus. The first case of coronavirus positive is found in Wuhan, China. Later, it spread in the atmosphere like air. The whole world is facing problems such as lockdown, economic fall, increase in death rate, and many more due to COVID-19. The world is in a great depression. But the government is taking many actions and measures to keep control within the state or country. All IT firms have come together to work on it and use all their technological advancement to face this major outburst with all the power. Major IT trends are being a great help to fight this. This paper is about how major IT trends came together to fight this growing epidemic. Technology has saved us from various arising environmental problems, so in this case (COVID-19). In this paper, there are facts about COVID-19 and its effects on mankind and the whole world. The existence of these technologies has made our life better and easy for living. There is also a survey about major IT trends like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, etc and their contribution to fight COVID-19. Some other technologies such as chatbots, supply chain, etc is also been elaborated to broaden the view that development of Industry 4.0 has truly enhanced our lives and majorly helped us fighting this deadly disease.

Keywords: COVID-19, IT trends, Lockdown, supply chain, Chatbots, technological advancement, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, IT Firms, Invisible evil