Workers answer the psychological health hotline in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning province, in 2020. A hospital set up the 24-hour hotline to help people who have mental health problems, especially caused by the pandemic. Photo: Yu Haiyang/China News Agency/VCG For nearly three years, the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic has endangered people's lives and posed challenges to their mental health. During the pandemic, 70 million additional patients with depressive disorders were recorded worldwide, along with another 90 million sufferers of anxiety disorders, and a doubling in the number of insomniacs, Chinese Academy of Sciences academic Lu Lin told us.

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