21 Days Quarantine Challenge
21 Days Quarantine Challenge
How Lockdown Effected Kids & Adults
The COVID-19 global pandemic has led to global mental health issues with well-resourced and under-resourced economies alike continuing to face these similar needs. The world’s sense of peace and security continues to erode. Over 188 countries worldwide suspended schools countrywide in response to suggested measures of physical and social distancing in order to mitigate person-to-person transmission. However, with the school closure, 90 percent (1.5 billion) of registered learners are young people and 72 percent have been impacted. Studies show that the effects of school closure during COVID-19 have exacerbated negative effects on children and adolescents. For instance, in India and Singapore, candidate final exams were canceled and university entry exams were suspended or canceled. Twenty percent of the young people affected were anxious and worried if they would ever go back to school.
Anecdotally, we know that many children struggled with the demands of home learning and with loneliness after weeks of social isolation. However lockdown brought some welcome respite from the everyday stresses of school, bullying and peer pressure.