Here are some simple ways in which you can take care of your emotional well-being in social isolation On 15 February, a father of three, based in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district, took his life after contracting flu-like symptoms. “The 50-year-old became convinced he had picked up the coronavirus, now known as Covid-19, after watching videos online," The Telegraph, UK, reported.
A month later, on 19 March, a 23-year-old man, who had flown from Sydney to Delhi and had been shifted to Safdarjung Hospital on suspicion that he had the coronavirus, jumped off the hospital building.
These two incidents were cited by the media as the first few deaths by suicide anywhere in the world linked to the coronavirus.