“…Amid the global COVID-19 crisis, in the course of implementation of environmental CSR, environmental concern came to the fore to prevent the spread and emergence of a new viral threat. The works of many scientists, such as Gaisie et al (2022), Hu et al (2022) are indicative of natural causes of emergence (COVID-19 as a zoonotic disease which originated from introduction of infection from a sick animal to a human) and spread (poor level of sanitation which promotes the transmission of viruses in society, and an increase in the level of sanitation and social distancing as the measures to reduce the disease incidence) of the COVID-19 pandemic.…”