The worldwide death toll from the new coronavirus has surpassed 101,000 amid about 1.6 million cases and more than 372,000 recoveries, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
Italy has registered the highest number of COVID-19 deaths, more than 18,800 as of Friday, while the United States has reported the majority of confirmed infections, nearly half a million.
However, the number of newly hospitalized patients in the hardest-hit state of New York has dropped to a one percent increase. These are frightening figures. The Social Media both Printed and Visual/Audio occupies the pivotal role in the current dispensation as the people confined to their 'Prison Houses' --and there are billions of these --have to turn to the dailies , and the TV to sustain themselves. WFH is merely an acronym . Not effective after 1 week's incarceration. The 'Prisoner' is inundated with a glut of news --mostly genuine but some fake. For example the news that the virus was bio engineered was fake, so was the mystery of the 5 G radiation towers. In what way will the SM affect the Captives in the Long Run? For we certainly are in for a long haul . Will we all suffer from an attractive symptom called the ' Stockholm Syndrome'? Thanks and Stay Safe!
Social media spreads the awareness about covid. It is good in positive sense. In other direction, it developed unknown fearful environment which creates mental tensions.
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of course, one can always read poems, write poems, or feel the sun ... or relax, and do nothing ...
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/we-are-social-species-how-will-social-distancing-affect-us
Despite the social media spread the awareness between people about corona virus, but sometimes it spreads hopelessness by telling bad news about corona virus. I has a bad effect on the mental health of people specially in third world..
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