The impact of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Big Data and evolving technologies in Coronavirus Disease - 2019 (COVID-19) curtailment Mr. Shiva Ahir Student, Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India. 2016shiva.ahir@ves.ac.in Ms. Dipali Telavane Associate Software Engineer, EbixCash Financial Technologies, Mumbai, India. dipalitelavane@gmail.com Ms. Riya Thomas Student, Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India. 2016.riya.thomas@ves.ac.in Abstract— The pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is proliferating across the globe obnoxiously and it is the most heard buzzword in recent times. Every person ranging from older people, persons with disabilities, youth, indigenous people have become a part of this chain and are most likely to suffer in the upcoming chronology. Social distancing is likely to become a new norm where “Work from Home'', Online Lectures” and “Meetings” ensue on social media applications. Technology has always lent a helping hand for mankind’s problems. The idea focuses on highlighting the advancements in technology in the midst of a bizarre situation. Deep Learning applications to detect the symptoms of COVID-19, AI based robots to maintain social distancing, Blockchain technology to maintain patient records, Mathematical modeling to predict and assess the situation and Big Data to trace the spread of the virus and other technologies. These technologies have immensely contributed to curtailing this pandemic. Strong will power, patience and optimistic guidelines catered by the respective government are some of the altercations to COVID-19. Keywords— COVID-19, coronavirus, Society, Social Distancing, Technology, Guidelines, Precautions, Diseases, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Big Data. I. INTRODUCTION The COVID-19 pandemic has manipulated the perspective of people towards their existence. It has manifested that the pre-planned things can be shattered by a nano-particle almost naked to the human eye. Large scale businesses have come to a cessation, no transportation facilities, closed cafeterias - all these have surely led to low economy and less trade, the fact that the farmers and the small scale vegetable vendors who have been in benefit due to the pandemic. People have started to purchase merchandise from small grocery shops instead of virtual shopping or tele-ordering. Although online services have started, its effect has drastically reduced, thus giving an influence on small scale vendors and our contribution to such workers will be of great help as they earn on daily wages. The ‘lockdown’ situation due to COVID-19 is a grueling problem when it comes to houses where only old or elderly people live. It is also an onerous time for people who were already on medication and one in need of medical supplies. Regular check-ups for dialysis have stopped which has endangered human lives. However, people have become more considerate than before due to the pandemic. The social life of people has enhanced due to the rise of phone calls, messages during the lockdown period which surely has given a boom to the telecommunication Industry. On the contrary, it is also disadvantageous to mankind which may have a negative impact on the mental health of the employees & the officials that are either working from their residencies or working from remote areas. As mentioned by many of the Health Ministers and doctors all around the globe, ‘Social Distancing is likely to become a new norm’ as it means the physical distance between two respective people should be more than 1 meter respectively. It is assumed that the post-COVID-19 phase would not be as same as it used to happen before the existence of the global pandemic as things are going to take some time to get back to its normal nature. The coronavirus disease is creating chaos across the globe and the ending of COVID-19 is indistinct and our society has already started witnessing economic & non-economic disturbances which lead towards an absolute turmoil and an uneasy, undesired lifestyle. The time spent with our families has increased to a great extent due to which the problems, misunderstandings created among the family members might have reduced due to quality time spent together. On the other hand, there have been registered court cases against domestic violence, increased burden of family, immense growth in the rate of increased divorce cases. As considering the facts and demonstrating certitude in the most optimistic approach, this surely must be a good world to come, with better people to stay in. Fig.1. Social Distancing - One of the effective measures to control the impact of COVID-19 on society Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Electronics and Communication (ICOSEC 2020) IEEE Xplore Part Number: CFP20V90-ART; ISBN: 978-1-7281-5461-9 © IEEE 2020. This article is free to access and download, along with rights for full text and data mining, re-use and analysis 113