The implications of COVID-19 for mental health status of an upper middle-income country, Peru

Abstract

Peru reported its first case of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on March 6, 2020 (Worldometer, 2020) and it has become the sixth most infected nation, with 814.829 cases and the second country with the highest mortality rate (98.1 deaths per 100.000 inhabitants) (Worldometer, 2020). Exposure to viral epidemics (Zuercher et al., 2020), such as COVID-19, increases mental health issues...