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Thursday, April 2, 2020

What is social distancing? Why it is so important to reduce the transmission of corona virus or covid-19

Social distancing, stay at home, handwash, sanitizer, mask, Quarantine and isolation these are the words which is used frequently every day after the breakout of corona virus all over the world. some words are completely new to many people. some of word we have listen first time like social distancing and quarantine
today we are going to discuss the meaning of there two words.

1. social distancing
if we can say in easy words then social distancing means physical distance of atleast 3ft or 1 meter from other people. we aware about the word social networking, social media, social bookmarkig, in the same manner social word used in social distancing. social means mass gathering. so social distancing means, make distance from mass gathering. social distancing also called physical distancing. through social distancing we can reduce the transmission of corona virus. social distancing is also useful during communicable diseases outbreak.

2. Quarantine
it means for a specific period of time a restriction may be imposed on a person or animal infected with communicable disease but do not have any confirmed medical diagnonis. in other words one can say a complete isolation for specific period of time from mass gathering. self quarantine means, if you feel that if you have symptons of a communicable diseases then on a precautionary note you yourself seperated from the other persons.


tags: ngo, social awareness, stay at home, corona virus, covid-19, social distancing, quartantine, dhankeshri devi foundation, 

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