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COVID-19 pandemic: What are the risks and challenges for schizophrenia?

Received 23 October, 2020; Accepted 06 November, 2020; Published 13 November, 2020 The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic in March 2020 following the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak (a new coronavirus subtype) in China in late 2019. Hence, an emergency state was announced, as well as issuing a rigid lockdown order for decreasing the virus spread rate [1]. Recent research has found the COVID-19 crisis to adversely affect the general population and schizophrenic patients [2]. Schizophrenia is approximately 1% prevalent worldwide [3]; however, it accounts for a heavy burden on society and families [4]. Also, the mortality rate for these patients is high, and they suffer from comorbid medical conditions. If they get SARSCoV2 infection, the system will experience an extra difficulty [4,5], whereas such patients have been disregarded [5]. Above all and for helping families and policymakers function better and adopting preventive measures, this paper aims to answer the question below: