Abstract

Since the first month of 2020, the whole world has faced an epidemic not seen since the Spanish flu pandemic. The new type of coronavirus, COVID-19. It is an easily transmissible disease caused by SARSCoV- 2, first identified in December 2019 and declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. As of October 2020, 37 million cases and more than 1 million deaths from COVID-19 have been recorded worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a very significant and negative impact on every area from global trade to individual life and economy due to the measures taken against the epidemic and the social restrictions that must be implemented. The food sector is also the most important among the groups affected by this pandemic. In this COVID-19 pandemic, as in every disease, nutrition has a very important place for human health.

Keywords: COVID-19;Pandemic;Nutrition;Food sector