COVID-19 and mental health
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20203420Keywords:
Mental health, COVID-19, InfectionAbstract
World Health Organization (WHO) considered the outbreak of a novel coronavirus, COVID-19, to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 2020 and finally on March 2020, WHO declared COVID-19 as a pandemic.
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