JISDeP Vol 1 No 2 (2020): August 2020

t has been a half year after the first case of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. No country in the world could escape from the spreading such deadly infectious disease. While only small countries reported a significant reduction of the new case, the outbreak is still escalating in other parts of the world. As of August 26, 2020, the global death toll from COVID-19 has reached 832,879, with 24,537,560 people confirmed cases (WHO, 2020).All countries and international institutions have taken various actions to respond to COVID-19. Almost all people around the globe have experienced drastically their new life. Social interaction has been restricted. Schools, public works, markets dan tourist destinations have been closed. Public transportation, praying public places, sports activities, and other places are prohibited. Working activities are mainly conducted from home. It has not only changed a lifestyle, but also it might lead to economic impacts. Almost countries either developed or poor countries reported that economic growth dropped, even minus. It is predicted that it will continue until the next one even another two or three years.From the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) context, the pandemic has impacted many issues among 17 agendas stipulated in the SDGs (United Nations, 2020). A consequences, it will also influence the achievement of the SDGs in 2030. The first impact, of course, is the “good health and wellbeing” (third goal). In contrast to the goal, the pandemic has been threatening health andwell-beingthat affected the essential of sustainable development.The global health crisisis clearly causing human suffering and destroying the social structure of people around the globe.The second issue that will be brought is “zero hunger”. In the short-term, Covid-19 hit the people who have work in informal sectors with low income. Many experts said that pandemic could push about million people into extreme poverty in the short and middle term. Pandemic will inevitably lessen to chance to improve “no poverty” as the first goal in the SDGs. Although all countries would share the new poor people, low and middle-income countries are significantly affected by a large outbreak. The World Bank, for example, projected that the new poor would be 23 million in Sub-Saharan Africa and 16 million in South Asia (Sánchez-Páramo, 2020).Editorial Notes

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