Highlights
There is a paucity of COVID-19 related mental health publications in lower middle-income countries.
Existing research in mental health are mostly online community survey to measure different domains of psychopathology in the context of COVID-19.
There is gross scarcity of original high quality research in Afro-Asian LMIC countries.
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