The application of digital technology as a means of combating the pandemic

This article is concerned with reflecting on the digital technologies importance by analyzing their use during the coronavirus spread. The digitalization role in all areas of public life - from medicine to education - is demonstrated. The pandemic, turning into a major worldwide crisis, required states, organizations, institutions, and individuals to develop strategies to combat it. The results indicate that digitalization has contributed to global economic survival by providing industry automation, ecommerce, and support for high risk occupations. While this paper focuses on the digitalization role in the virus era, these discussions can to a high extent be applied in other timeframes. Even though digitization alone is incapable of ending the virus, the study delves deeper into the search for its true potential. The true opportunity potential also represents the ubiquity of connectivity to audio and video applications such as Google, Zoom and Skype, linking people together and facilitating elearning.