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Psychosocial Impact on The General Public

Nationwide lockdowns can produce acute panic, anxiety, obsessive behaviors, hoarding, paranoia, and depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the long run. Outbursts of racism, stigmatization, and xenophobia against particular communities are also being widely reported. Nevertheless, frontline healthcare workers are at higher-risk of contracting the disease, as well as experiencing adverse psychological outcomes in form of burnout, anxiety, fear of transmitting infection. This may also cause a change that negatively impacts the normal life of children, resulting in mental distress.

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Updated 2020-10-11

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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

Biomedical Sciences