Abstract
In 2019, the world experienced a global public health concern when the novel coronavirus originated from China and affected around fifty-seven thousand people around the world by March 2020. The quick rise in the number of cases and the death toll overwhelmed the scientific and medical community. While all the focus was driven towards finding the epidemiology, the treatment and the management, the mental health aspect of the quarantine was being overlooked. The purpose of this review is to create awareness about the long-term consequences of quarantine, with the focus on the elderly community in Pakistan.
Highlights
The world experienced a global public health concern when the Coronavirus pandemic hit, claiming approximately 800,000 lives and infecting 22,000,000 people around the world as of August 2020 [1]
Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2
The symptoms of COVID-19 appear after an incubation period of 5.2 days and they range from fever, cough, fatigue, and diarrhea to life threatening complications like acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), acute cardiac dysfunction and death
Summary
The world experienced a global public health concern when the Coronavirus pandemic hit, claiming approximately 800,000 lives and infecting 22,000,000 people around the world as of August 2020 [1]. Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome- coronavirus). Coronaviruses are known to have caused other respiratory infections including Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). The symptoms of COVID-19 appear after an incubation period of 5.2 days and they range from fever, cough, fatigue, and diarrhea to life threatening complications like acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), acute cardiac dysfunction and death. Adults greater than sixty years old with reduced immunity had a shorter incubation period and a higher risk of severity of the. With comorbidities like hypertension, diabetes and cardio vascular diseases had a higher rate of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admissions [2,3,4]
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