Business for SA sounds Covid-19 mental health warning

📆 07-05-20 20:57:00
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SA is entering its seventh week of a stringent national lockdown, which has seen the government impose sweeping restrictions on trade, travel, drinking, smoking and social interaction.

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“We are justifiably focused on the here and now of the pandemic, but I believe there is a looming, second-order mental health crisis that is only beginning to emerge,” said B4SA’s public outreach workstream head Judy Nwokedi, who is also COO of Tourvest. The SA Depression and Anxiety Group said the volume of calls to its helpline has doubled since the start of the lockdown, to between 1,200 and 1,400 calls a day.

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A complete waste as it's already failed in western cape the harsher the lockdown the less compliance and higher chance of failure its not sustainable economically and will collapse with no gain. Less harsh and you have higher compliance and can last months we have moron leaders

And the Who said we would reach our peak in 6 weeks?

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