COVID-19'S MARK ON THE ASEAN ECONOMY Achieving medium-term economic goals may be a daunting challenge for ASEAN countries

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread at alarming speed,the economic activities in ASEAN member states were disrupted when governments implemented tough containment measures.Since the situation was gradually brought under control in May,these countries have launched work on rebooting the economy and digging a way out of the epidemic.