The Impact of Covid-19 on the Gambling Industry
At the end of 2019 reports started to come out of Wuhan in China of an unknown virus. Little was known at first other than it was a coronavirus and was named Covid-19. On January 30th 2020 the WHO (World Health Organisation) declared it to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. It only took a matter of a few short months to spread across the globe causing panic buying, fear, sickness, unemployment, and death. By the end of March there were lockdowns in place across the US and many other countries around the world. Restaurants, cinemas, bars, and gyms were closed down. Most of the general public probably believed it was only going to last a couple of weeks. Indeed many people may have initially enjoyed being told they had two weeks without work especially if it was pa...