The Impact of Covid-19 on Rural Areas Students of Pakistan: Moderating Role of HEC Policy and Internet Service

Abstract

Covid-19 Issue of rural areas students Internet expenditure HEC policy Pakistan. Contribution/ Originality: The contribution of this study which has investigated the impact of Covid-19 on education of rural area of student: moderating role of HEC policy and internet service in case of Pakistan. This study contributes in Covid-19 literature and gives the solution of problem which Pakistani student face in rural area in case of online classes and internet service. 1. INTRODUCTION First, World Health Organization was declaring the disease with the name of novel corona virus on December 8 in the city of Wuhan, China that made panic in everywhere (Zu et al., 2020) At that time, China was ready to celebrate their New Year "Spring Festival", when the virus was spread rapidly with the movement of people one city to another city (Chen, Yang, Yang, Wang, & Bärnighausen, 2020). When this festival come people move to their home cities, due to this shuffling/movement of people this virus spread all over the world. So, the result of this movement, this virus spread dreadful effects on human body and economic (Baker et al., 2020).

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