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Let us unite against COVID-19 – a New Zealand perspective
Novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has shaken the existence of mankind worldwide, including that of New Zealand. In comparison to other countries, New Zealand has had a very low number of confirmed and probable cases as well as COVID-19-related deaths. New Zealand closed its borders and rapidly decla...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7322157/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32404225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2020.44 |
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description | Novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has shaken the existence of mankind worldwide, including that of New Zealand. In comparison to other countries, New Zealand has had a very low number of confirmed and probable cases as well as COVID-19-related deaths. New Zealand closed its borders and rapidly declared a stringent lockdown to eliminate COVID-19. The country’s ‘go hard, go early’ policy serves as an exemplar for the rest of the world to date. The mysterious nature of COVID-19 has caused tremendous stress and uncertainty leading to universal conflict between public health and state economy. Mental health services and non-government organisations have been proactive in the fight against COVID-19. Though there has been no significant rise in referrals to secondary mental health services to date (4 May 2020), a rapid surge in mental health presentations is widely anticipated. Telehealth may prove to be an efficient and cost-effective tool for the provision of future health services. |
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spelling | pubmed-73221572020-06-29 Let us unite against COVID-19 – a New Zealand perspective Bandyopadhyay, G. Meltzer, A. Ir J Psychol Med Perspective Piece Novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has shaken the existence of mankind worldwide, including that of New Zealand. In comparison to other countries, New Zealand has had a very low number of confirmed and probable cases as well as COVID-19-related deaths. New Zealand closed its borders and rapidly declared a stringent lockdown to eliminate COVID-19. The country’s ‘go hard, go early’ policy serves as an exemplar for the rest of the world to date. The mysterious nature of COVID-19 has caused tremendous stress and uncertainty leading to universal conflict between public health and state economy. Mental health services and non-government organisations have been proactive in the fight against COVID-19. Though there has been no significant rise in referrals to secondary mental health services to date (4 May 2020), a rapid surge in mental health presentations is widely anticipated. Telehealth may prove to be an efficient and cost-effective tool for the provision of future health services. Cambridge University Press 2020-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7322157/ /pubmed/32404225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2020.44 Text en © College of Psychiatrists of Ireland 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Perspective Piece Bandyopadhyay, G. Meltzer, A. Let us unite against COVID-19 – a New Zealand perspective |
title | Let us unite against COVID-19 – a New Zealand perspective |
title_full | Let us unite against COVID-19 – a New Zealand perspective |
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title_full_unstemmed | Let us unite against COVID-19 – a New Zealand perspective |
title_short | Let us unite against COVID-19 – a New Zealand perspective |
title_sort | let us unite against covid-19 – a new zealand perspective |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7322157/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32404225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2020.44 |
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