The World Health Organization warned on Thursday that the pandemic’s mental health consequences will be “lengthy or far,” as experts and officials urged action on Covid-related anxiety and stress. It stated that “anxieties about viral transmission, the emotional effect of lockdowns, and self-isolation,” as well as stressors problems of unemployment, money woes, and social exclusion, had led to a mental health crisis.
Hans Kluge, the WHO’s regional director for Europe, stated that mental health ought to be considered a “basic human right,” emphasizing how the virus had torn families apart.
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