COVID-19: legal risks and recommendations for doing business. Part 5

COVID-19 and the containment policies aimed at controlling it have changed how we work and what we consume. History shows that such changes are not always temporary—crises can fundamentally reshape our beliefs and behaviors. How then can companies prepare for a postcrisis world, rather than hunkering down and waiting for a return to the past?

In the report published in the run-up to World Children’s Day 2020, UNICEF calls for averting a lost generation as COVID-19 threatens to cause irreversible harm to children’s education, nutrition and wellbeing.

The study deals with the new realities of economic and social relations resulting from the spread of COVID-19 and its consequences. It contains possible scenarios of disease spread and its consequences, as well as the main features of the current situation, which should be taken into account when developing and implementing a business recovery strategy.

In this publication, the Institute of Natural Monopolies Research (IPEM) summarizes the performance of Russia’s manufacturing industries in April 2020. This month, IPEM registered a sharp drop in manufacturing which is the greatest on record since the 2008-2010 financial crisis.