Effects and Repercussions of the COVID-19 Virus on the Fashion and Textile Industry

The Covid-19 pandemic struck the world suddenly and in an unprecedented way in terms of the speed of its spread worldwide, the inability to remedy the consequences, and the severity and strength of the effects resulting from the pandemic, to enter the world in an attempt to control the spread through a series of closures that ranged between Complete to partial closure, as well as the duration of closure, whether complete or partial was differed from one country to another.
The shadows of the pandemic’s effects have widened, not only on the health level, but on the industrial level and therefore the economic one as a result of the closures and disruption of global supply and supply chains, with the stagnation of the buying and selling movement, in addition to the transformation of a large sector of work sectors to work from home through modern technological solutions that pushed countries for a faster and more comprehensive digital transformation.



The textile and clothing industry was one of the industries that most affected after the transfer from the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of focusing on textile products used in the field of protection and protective and precautionary measures from the manufacture of medical masks, as well as focusing on the use of materials that withstand the effect of disinfectants and temperatures during washing, as well as The textile machinery manufacturing and trading market has been affected.

Among the most important effects of the pandemic on the industrial sector in Egypt are the following:
(Negative) The slowdown in the activity of the industrial sector, the decline in local and international demand, and the suffering of some factories from the lack of production requirements imported from abroad, especially from China, the rise in the prices of production requirements for some industries, the decline in investments in the industrial sector, and the suspension of investment plans due to the uncertainty that accompanied the pandemic. In addition, laying off part of the employment or reducing salaries and closing some factories.

As for (positive) effect, it is the tendency to rely on local industries to meet production requirements, and to focus on deepening local industrialization of strategic industries