A World Health Organization chief has warned we may have a second coronavirus pandemic on our hands if people don't stay connected while in lockdown.
Dr Hans Kluge, the agency's Regional Director for Europe, has expressed fears that being cooped up in self-isolation with little contact with the outside world could take a massive toll on people's mental health.
Speaking to The Times Stories of our times podcast, he said: "We are definitely worried. "We want to avoid a pandemic of mental disorders in addition to a pandemic of Covid-19. "This goes to the individual level.
I see it around me, I see it in my own household, this is putting a burden on individual people, but then also collectively; the elderly people who can not see their