A Review on –Impact of Covid-19 on Mental Health

Abstract

World Health Organization proclaimed the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a pandemic. It might be on par with the
1918 influenza pandemic, which killed 50 million people and affected one-third of the world’s population. The virus that
causes COVID-19 disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has infected 213 countries and
territories around the world, resulting in 14 million cases and half a million deaths (WHO, 2020).1