Chamber News DCCI Review August-September 2020
Chamber News DCCI Review August-September 2020 1 Chamber News DCCI Review August-September 2020 2 Editorial Note DCCI Review August-September 2020 COVID-19: a boon for e-commerce The COVID-19 pandemic which has shut almost the whole shows, about 2,000 online stores and 700 Facebook- world having, as of September, left more than a million based sales outlets. In 2018, the China-based global dead globally and more than 7,000 dead in Bangladesh e-commerce giant Alibaba acquired the Daraz Group, since the disease broke out in China in December 2019 a leader in e-commerce in Bangladesh, as part of the has constrained the supply chain, global, regional and Chinese company’s strategic move to open up South domestic. The disease which has so far left, globally, Asian markets. more than 33.7 million infected, with 69 per cent of them All this has furthered e-commerce and it grew having recovered, and, in Bangladesh, half a million exponentially during the COVID-19 outbreak as it infected, with 87 per cent of them having recovered has provides consumers the comfort of shopping sitting at also boosted, or furthered the scope for, e-commerce, the the home while avoiding the risk of infection that grows process of purchase and sales of products and services by when people go out and stay in public places with many means of the electronic medium between businesses and others around not wearing the mask or adhering to the consumers, businesses and businesses, consumers and social distancing protocol, which, of course, has come consumers and businesses and governments.
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