Powerful Word of the Week: Part 2!
Word 1: Quarantine 👥⬅➡👥
The first powerful word of the week is quarantine!
You may often hear or read the word “quarantine” since the outbreak of COVID-19. Do you know what that word means? If you don’t, don’t worry! We will explain to you what it means thoroughly.
Let’s discuss the origin of the word first.
The word quarantine comes from quarantena, meaning “forty days”, used in 14th–15th-century Venetian and designating the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic; it followed the trentino, or thirty-day isolation period, first imposed in 1347 in the Republic of Ragusa, Dalmatia.
According to Oxford Dictionary, the definition of quarantine is:
“a period of time when an animal or a person that has or may have a disease is kept away from others in order to prevent the disease from spreading.”
Quarantine is distinct from medical isolation, in which those confirmed to be infected with a communicable disease are isolated from the healthy population. This also applies during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Aside from the word quarantine, there is also self-quarantine.
Word 2: Self-quarantine 🏡⬅👥
The second powerful word of the week is self-quarantine!
According to Oxford Dictionary, the definition of self-quarantine is:
“a period of time when you keep yourself away from other people if you think you may have a disease in order to prevent the disease from spreading.”
Self-quarantine means to refrain from any contact with other individuals for a period of time (such as two weeks) during the outbreak of a contagious disease usually by remaining in one’s home and limiting contact with family members
To reduce transmission of a contagious disease during an outbreak, individuals are typically asked by health officials to self-quarantine following known contact with an infectious person or after returning from a region where cases of the disease are widely reported.
“As the coronavirus spreads across the country, thousands of people who may have been exposed to the virus through travel abroad or contact with an infected person have been asked to self-quarantine for two weeks to help contain the outbreak.” – Deanna Pan, a journalist.
We hope we can enrich you with more knowledge about the words “quarantine” and “self-quarantine” since those words are currently relevant to be used during this pandemic. We advise you to stay at home and distance yourself from other people during this unfortunate time. Hang in there! We are all in this together! 🙏
Stay safe, happy, and healthy! 😊💪
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