A community call to action: mitigating COVID pandemic's impact on mental health

Wahid Ullah¹, Muhammad Ilyas^{1

2}, Mukhtar Alam³, Jong Bhak⁴, Peter J Tonellato⁵

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Omic Sciences, Islamia College University Peshawar, 25120, Pakistan.
² Department of Bioengineering, University of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Swat, 19060, Pakistan.
³ Dean Faculty of Sciences, University of Swabi-23430, Pakistan.
⁴ School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, South Korea.
⁵ School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65212, USA.

Editorial

Wahid Ullah et al. Future Virol. 2022 Jan.

. 2022 Jan:10.2217/fvl-2021-0169.

doi: 10.2217/fvl-2021-0169. Epub 2022 Mar 17.

Wahid Ullah¹, Muhammad Ilyas^{1

2}, Mukhtar Alam³, Jong Bhak⁴, Peter J Tonellato⁵

¹ Centre for Omic Sciences, Islamia College University Peshawar, 25120, Pakistan.
² Department of Bioengineering, University of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Swat, 19060, Pakistan.
³ Dean Faculty of Sciences, University of Swabi-23430, Pakistan.
⁴ School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, South Korea.
⁵ School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65212, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; developing countries; global; healthcare; mental health; social network; stress; suicides; vaccines.

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