The E-commerce business in time of Covid-19 : positive impact

الملخص EN

The study aimed to determine the impact of coronavirus (Covid-19) on the online business or e-commerce in the world.

For this study, we choose the most countries affected by the coronavirus in the world which are Italy, China, UK, France and the USA as examples, and we took the first quarter of 2020 as a time field for the study.

The results illustrated that despite the negative effects of Covid-19 on e- commerce, the Internet sales increased in all this countries, while retail sales have fallen, and that the e-commerce was the lifeline for enterprises during the crisis.