@TowardDiscoveringEnglish · Post #351 · 05/25/2021, 09:24 AM
⚜️ CORONA VOCAB 2019-20 ⚜️ 🧪 English grammar & Vocab 🌡 #Part3 🦠Containment area ✔️ a geographical zone with limited access in or out in an effort to contain an outbreak. 🦠Coronavirus ✔️ a family of viruses that include SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) as well as other respiratory illnesses. A coronaviruses, also known as a CoV, is typically spread between animals and humans—an event known as zoonotic transfer—and they are named for the term “corona”—Latin for crown—which refers to the shape of the virus when observed microscopically. 🦠COVID-19 ✔️COVID-19 stands for novel coronavirus disease 2019, which refers to the year of its initial detection. COVID-19 is the illness related to the current pandemic; the illness is caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2). 🦠Epidemic ✔️a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community or geographic area. 🦋@TowardDiscoveringEnglish🦋
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