The pandemic
The corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has now become a pandemic and major health threat. Almost countries of the world including Nepal have suspended their academic activities by closing schools and colleges. Some attempts are being made to overcome this gap by providing virtual classes to the students.But such efforts are also being proven inaccessible and challenging especially for the poor students residing in remote parts of the countries. Regarding the practical courses where acquisition of psychomotor skill by the students is mandatory together with other cognitive and affective skill, virtual online classes remain ineffective. The date and time of opening of schools and colleges has become unpredictable. In this review, the author has highlighted the potential impacts of this outbreak in education, academic institutions, and students .
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, first reported and confirmed in China (Zhao et al. 2020), is now a major global health threat (Walker et al. 2020). Due to an initial exponential growth of confirmed cases in China and the rapid increase of positively diagnosed cases in many countries worldwide raised concern on an international scale (Maier & Brockmann 2020). The World Health Organization (WHO) therefore announced the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic on 11 March,
2020 (WHO 2020). The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Nepal on 23 January 2020 on a 31-year-old college student returned from Wuhan.