Psychological Impact of Quarantine and Isolation: A Take-home Message for Healthcare Workers
Author(s): Madhumita Choudhari*, Pavan Bajaj and Hussain Ali John
Abstract
The globe scare of the enormous 2019 outbreak of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), was originally reported in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization (WHO) deemed COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020. In March 2020, the WHO determined that COVID-19 qualifies as a pandemic. By putting in place extensive quarantine measures, the World Health Organization and public health experts from all across the world worked to contain the COVID-19 epidemic. This article looks at the psychological effects of quarantine measures employed during the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemics.