“Obviously, the world has changed, the world has changed dramatically and, most likely, forever. And I also feel sorry for those ordinary times where we were 4 months ago” – Medvedev said at the Startup Village conference LiveStream.
Pandemic coronavirus caused severe economic consequences for the whole world: this is a 3% decrease of global GDP, which is approximately 9 trillion dollars, said the Deputy Chairman of the security Council. “The numbers are enormous, to fill them will be very, very difficult,” he said. But every crisis creates additional opportunities.
So, the coronavirus pandemic give impetus to a new technological revolution in the world, said Medvedev.
“This is a forced push, but humanity repeatedly passed through such a transformation that was created or that have been generated by various crises, including pandemics,” said Medvedev.
He cited the example of the First world war, when mankind invented antibiotics. New drugs and research and development can also appear after pandemic COVID-19.
“All are now working on it, we work too – we have about 15 platforms specially for this purpose created that deal with drugs, and about 50 drugs currently in development,” – said Medvedev.
the Digitalization of the economy – the key feature of the new world. According to Medvedev, today in the least affected those industries that managed to reprovisioning. This online retail and remote services, education, and business automation. “The greatly increased need for shopping online. People are very interested in live theater, educational programs,” stated Medvedev.
major changes, he said, expect the field of labor relations. Today’s reality is remote employment, the use of digital technologies in the work. Accordingly, this requires changing the model of labour legislation.
“for Us it is essential that all these models were loaded in our labor law, to protect workers and not to put employers in a difficult situation,” – said Medvedev announced that the labour laws will be adjusted.
the Road ahead the world in a pandemic, extremely difficult, Medvedev stated. “But that doesn’t mean we should give up and allow the pandemic to devour humanity,” he concluded.
