The pandemic and the impact on the digital economy

Abstract

The appearance of the Covid-19 pandemic has obligated people to keep distancing because of the infection spreading that surged untimely. Conditions, human beings were forced into the search on how to be closer to the external world, the answer, via the internet. Most nations implemented certain restrictions to maintain their citizens despite having to make provision resupply. Taking these in consideration, digital economics began to gain more renown that it already had, online shopping for example expanded enormously, being the e-commerce common and mandatory 188 J.C. Martínez-Perales et al. more and more. In regard to Mexico, sales shoot up about 90% on the first trimester of the pandemic, about 5 out of 10 business doubled their growth on internet, and moreover 2 out of 10 online business registered about 300% growth increase on sales volume thus projecting a precaution measure on contagion instead of making presential shopping [1].