The Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on E-Business in Malaysia

Abstract

The key purpose of this research is to determine the impact of coronavirus (Covid-19) on the online business in Malaysia. Coronavirus one of the deadly known viruses has already taken the lives of many in almost half of the country. This means that the country’s economic growth has lowered down. It has almost shaken up all types of business including the e-commerce business on a massive scale. Major retailers have temporarily shuttered their stores. Apart from that, the medium and small-sized retailers are combating with the situation due to low footfalls. Further, online businesses are also not out of the list. They are also severely affected by Malaysia. Many e-commerce businesses rely upon China for half of its merchandise products. Therefore, it is assumed that this deadly virus will severely impact the Malaysian online business especially the Chinese products. A survey has been conducted for this research and primary research has been carried out to get a better outcome. The results illustrated that as the maximum of the products comes from China and the maximum of the industries are lockdown which means that there is no import and export of the product.