COVID-19 is a new infectious disease that can present severe clinical manifestations, including death, which is already present in 124 countries the progression and generalization of the disease this process is accompanied by public health policies such as the quarantine of citizens for significant periods, whose consequences on mental health will be a matter to evaluate shortly In China, a survey of 1,210 people revealed that 53.8% valued the psychological impact of the situation as moderate or severe, 16.5% referred moderate to severe depressive symptoms, 28.8% anxiety symptoms between mild and intense, and 8.1% stress levels between moderate and painful, the primary concern of 75.2% was that their families get infected with COVID-19. The leading causes of attention are: the emotional reactions of professionals to more exposed health workers that can hinder their work with infected people, emotionally vulnerable groups, especially people with previous psychopathologies; the main objective with these people is to help them comply and adapt to quarantine. Likewise, it is vital to monitor the psychopathological state of mental health patients with COVID-19. First-line psychological support tasks must fall on the medical teams that treat them or adapt and implement systematic telecare measures to protect the staff nonessential. Finally, patients' relatives admitted for the virus in authoritarian states with a poor prognosis or who have already died.