The new decade brought with it the first pandemic of the social-media age - Coronavirus Disease 2019, popularly referred to as COVID-19. Despite similarities with the 2003 SARS pandemic, COVID-19 has much higher infectivity but lower mortality than SARS. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a total of 8422 people worldwide were affected with SARS, with 916 deaths. COVID-19, on the other hand, has already affected more than 10 million and had over 500,000 deaths.

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Citation: Suprakash Chaudhury., et al.. “COVID 19 Pandemic Anxiety and its Management". Acta Scientific Neurology 3.8 (2020): 39-41.

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