CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC AND ITS IMPACTS ON THE EDUCATIONAL AREA

Abstract

This article aims to analyze two very current themes and which maintains a great interlocution among themselves and which is embodied in the Coronavirus Pandemic, COVID-19, which has been overwhelmingly impacting people from different continents, and from all the countries. As is known, older people are more likely to be infected, especially if they have comorbidities, however, it has been found that the virus has also been infecting younger and healthier people. Nowadays, Brazil has become the epicenter of Pandemic, due, mainly: precarious conditions, in which the majority of the population lives, huddled in shacks, often without basic sanitation and drinking water; lack of a national leader, who should be constituted as a president who, to guide, direct, control the population, so that he could take the necessary measures, to minimize and / or extinguish the Pandemic. In this context, today, in which the number of both the infected and the Brazilians who die due to COVID-19 has been increasing, in an overwhelming way. In the educational area, face-to-face classes have been replaced by remote classes. Remote education has been a viable alternative for the historic moment for the different countries affected by COVID-19. However, in Brazil, the implementation, the use of remote education, has as major difficulty the reality of a significantly reduced number, even in the scope of Higher Education (Univsersities), of students who have access to digital technologies, according to data from PNAD / IBGE.