The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to the world economy. Georgia has not been able to avoid these events, even more so since the service sector particularly affected by the pandemic crisis, including the tourism industry, accounts for 74 percent of the country's economy. Although the spread of the disease was initially relatively small in the face of anti-pandemic restrictions imposed by the government, the country's economy has suffered greatly.

The study is an attempt to quantitatively and qualitatively assess the consequences of the restrictions imposed by the state and the results of emergency anti-crisis measures taken by the government to deal with the first wave of the pandemic.