1.
the COVID-19 pandemic; the coronavirus crisis (as a period and its hardships)
The period of disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, together with the hardships it brought. The suffix 禍 means calamity or misfortune, so the word frames the pandemic as a time of trouble rather than just the disease itself.
A coinage from コロナ (corona, short for the coronavirus) plus the suffix 禍 (calamity, disaster). It refers to the pandemic as a difficult period and became extremely common from 2020 onward. Note that 禍 is read か here, not うず.
Common collocations
- コロナ禍で: amid the coronavirus pandemic
- コロナ禍の影響: the impact of the pandemic
- コロナ禍を経て: having gone through the pandemic