This article provides an early approximation
of the impacts of the pandemic on the Chilean business
park, using representative data from the latest formal
surveys in the country. In this sense, the number of
active businesses collapsed in part due to the social crisis
that began on October 18, 2019 and the losses were felt
in most industries due to the pandemic crisis that
continues to generate job losses and low business
profitability. These early findings have implications for
productive development policies and may predict
medium and long-term ramifications, especially in the
country's economic and social inequality. In addition,
there is substitution of face-to-face work for telework,
with the consequent conditions of family overcrowding,
where households are not prepared to coexist with
maximum labor productivity
Keywords : Macroeconomics, microeconomics, COVID-19 and economic growth