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‘long- term’ Covid impact on mental health: WHO

ATHENS: The mental health impact of the pandemic will be 'long-term and far-reaching', the World Health Organization said on Thursday, as experts and leaders called for action on Covid-linked anxiety and stress.

'Everyone is affected in one way or another,' the WHO said in a statement at the start of a two-day meeting in Athens with health ministers from dozens of countries. - AFP