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Psychological Impacts of Covid-19 on Human Health

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Recently, the world is going through a global pandemic COVID-19 caused by SARS—COV2. Which has raised huge and difficult challenges in front of world for every layer of society and from every aspect, be it economy crisis, temporary unemployment, starvation, collision of fundamental services, educational pause, it has affected every sector globally. This disease is hitting the medical system of almost 213 countries brutally. If we talk about health issues raised by global pandemic, so at one side where it is drastically dangerous for physical health of a person, at the same time, there are many psychological impacts of COVID-19 on human health. Its highly spreading nature is the reason why restrictions have been made to cope against its growth throughout the world, due to which almost everyone whether they are student, teachers, business persons, is locked inside to stop the outbreak of this virus. Now this situation leads to the mental health issues in people sitting far apart from each other since long, a feeling of loneliness, anxiety, depressive symptoms, and other negative emotions of mental illness can be seen largely in people during pandemic around the globe. There could be many reasons, like sitting at home for so long, fear of being infected by the virus, bereavement, rumors and myths in the society about diseases and what not. The main aim of this work is to implement the dataset gathered in the direction of getting useful information and generating results out of it, to study the psychological impacts of COVID-19 on human health, what are the different symptoms, what could be the reasons, and a general solution roadmap to the respective problem.

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Baig, M.A., Khan, I.R. (2022). Psychological Impacts of Covid-19 on Human Health. In: Mahapatra, R.P., Peddoju, S.K., Roy, S., Parwekar, P., Goel, L. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Trends in Computing . Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 341. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7118-0_67

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