EFFECTS OF COVID-19 ON MENTAL HEALTH: A REVIEW OF THE FIRST PHASE

ABSTRACT

The history of COVID-19 pandemic that arose toward the finish of 2019 started undermining the wellbeing and lives of millions of individuals following half a month. Profoundly infectious with the chance of causing serious respiratory sickness, it has immediately affected governments and general wellbeing frameworks. These have reacted by proclaiming a general wellbeing crisis of public and global worry, just as by embracing unprecedented measures to forestall the infection and cutoff the flare-up. A large number of lives have been essentially modified, and a worldwide, staggered, and requesting pressure adapting change measure is continuous. The COVID-19 illness has now accomplished pandemic status. The World Health Organization (WHO) has given rules for dealing with the issue from both biomedical and mental perspectives. That is why; preventive and clinical activity is the most significant at this stage. The crisis of mental health emergency counselling for individuals influenced by COVID-19 are likewise basic. This incorporates direct intercessions for patients, and circuitous for family members, guardians, and medical healthcare experts. The present research paper makes a review of the effects of pandemic COVID-19 on mental health in the first phase of this disease.

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