The process of modernization brought significant changes in societies as a result of growing industrialism and technological advancements. The rapid pace of modernity has led to plenty of sociological thinking owing to its growing impact on society. However, the focus of classical and contemporary or late modern theorists varied. Whereas the central issue in classical modernity was analysis and critique of a modern society, the late modern theorists were concerned with the extreme pace and dynamism of modernity. For the late modern theorists, the central issue is ‘risk’ and its ‘prevention’. Risk, then, is fundamental to the late modern society and is manufactured by modern technologies and distributed easily as a result of global interconnectedness and free and voluntaristic movement. Such movement has resulted in several functional and dysfunctional consequences; one of them being the dissipation of ecological barriers that resulted in close contact of human and animal worlds. Covid 19 pandemic that has led to massive health crisis at global level represents thisfeature of modernity. The present sociological work tries to establish a possible interface between Covid 19 and systems produced by modernity/ late modernity in the light of perspectives constructed by Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck.

Modernity, Late modernity, Covid- 19