The Coronavirus Pandemic and Its Impact on Mental Health

But according to scientists the Covid-19 pandemic is not just a medical phenomenon; it affects individuals and society and causes disruption, anxiety, stress, stigma, and xenophobia. A very serious aspect of the pandemic is that the behaviour of an individual as a unit of society or a community has marked effects on the dynamics of a pandemic that involves the level of severity, degree of flow, and aftereffects Reflecting on mental health in pandemic one realizes that more than making a political or religious or economic issue out of the rising situation, the need of the hour is to cope with the mental state of us humans (Fox, 2020). Hence all people of responsibilities as medical scientists, psychologists and psychiatrists, of all fields to be empathetic and compassionate to humanity as all of us are placed in this situation irrespective of one’s state of life