Social Distancing Gear Market Trends

Growth Drivers

Growing Demand for Social Distancing Gear from Government of Nations Worldwide

On 3^rd of March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) shared a news release stating the shortage of personal protective equipment around the world backed by the growing global demand for protective equipment and further requested the industry and governments to raise the manufacturing of these necessities by 40% so that they can meet the worldwide demand.

Following the recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) around the world, there is a rising demand for social distancing gear, such as PPE kits, as these kits are widely used by healthcare workers, who are the frontline warriors of the disease, for treating patients affected by the coronavirus disease. Coronavirus disease is a communicable disease, which is why, it is highly mandatory for healthcare workers to use disposable social distancing gear for their own safety. The increasing concern for the spread of the disease worldwide has raised the necessity amongst the government of nations around the world to deploy more number of healthcare workers, who are in need for such protective equipment to fight the disease, thereby influencing positively towards the growth of the global social distancing gear market. In a situation report shared by the World Health Organization, dated 28^th of April 2020, 10:00 CEST, the total number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus disease outbreak stood to 2,954,222 numbers and 202,597 deaths worldwide.

Increasing Fear Amongst Individuals Around the Globe for Pandemic Disease Outbreak

Throughout decades, the world has observed numerous pandemic and epidemic diseases, such as cholera, Ebola virus, influenza, COVID-19, yellow fever, poliomyelitis, meningitis, SARS, MERS-CoV and others, which has taken numerous lives around the world and has raised the necessity amongst individuals to take strict health precautions, including maintaining a safe distance from people by following social distancing norms. The fear from these communicable diseases has thereby raised the need to use social distancing gear, especially when external situations gradually start normalizing and imposed lockdowns are gradually lifted off. This transition phase requires individuals to take special precautions as there are high chances of contamination from the disease during the period. Such a factor is thereby anticipated to drive significantly the growth of the global social distancing gear market.

Challenges

High cost of social distancing gears, especially during uncontrolled market situations on the period of the spread of an epidemic disease, coupled with problems in supply chain observed during impacted external environments are some of the factors anticipated to restraint the growth of the market.