Young people feel heat from pandemic By CHEN YINGQUN | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-02-23 07:50 Share CLOSE Young people practice combat sports in Milan, Italy, on Feb 5 as gyms are closed. MASSIMO ALBERICO/FOR CHINA DAILY
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In the United Kingdom, a survey by the mental health charity YoungMinds found that 80 percent of young people in the country said the pandemic had affected them mentally, with isolation and loneliness exacerbated by school closures and restrictions on movement.
Harry Butcher, 20, who studies economics and international relations at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, said that when the UK first went into lockdown in March, he had already been working on a farm for two months during the winter holiday.