When Jenny Li took her six-year-old son to the airport for a flight from Beijing to Los Angeles, she was unsure if they would be able to board the plane.
Li was prepared for difficulties, after hearing stories from friends who had encountered trouble or failed to leave the country as China encouraged people to cut "unnecessary trips" during the pandemic. Anxiety and depression increased globally by a massive 25 per cent in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a scientific brief released by the World Health Organisation in March.
"The information we have now about the impact of Covid-19 on the world's mental health is just the tip of the iceberg," said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the briefing. In a paper published by General Psychiatry in February 2020, the Chinese researchers, led by Qiu Jianyin from Shanghai Mental Health Centre, said the unprecedented quarantine measures in China triggered a number of psychological problems.
"In the latest wave of this year, many Chinese people, especially the young and those with no underlying diseases, have had little worry about coronavirus. However, anxiety and panic are still prevalent," she said. People died waiting for the nucleic acid test results they needed before they could receive medical treatment for diseases unrelated to the pandemic.
Quite a few people she has counselled are also increasingly worried about their economic prospects and financial state, she said. "The pandemic has changed many people's life and work, leaving a collective psychological trauma which is to be assimilated." Questions included whether they are finding it "hard to calm down", "difficult to breathe" and "feeling life is meaningless".
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