COVID dictionary: A - Z of words that accompanied the coronavirus

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COVID dictionary: A - Z of words that accompanied the coronavirus

Contact-tracing: the process of identifying and testing people who have been exposed to a contagious disease like the coronavirus.

Other words here include curfew which was imposed in many countries as they declared states of emergency.

Many countries in Africa imposed some form of lockdown in the fight against coronavirus.

Quarantine: a measure used to prevent onward transmission of an illness by separating and restricting movement of people that have been exposed to a contagious disease.

People with such conditions are at a higher risk of contracting the coronavirus and experiencing serious or critical illness since the chronic illnesses have already weakened their immune system.

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