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Covid Dictionary~I

Coronavirus has introduced us to a host of new words or phrases, new usage of some existing words and recalling certain words from disuse or oblivion. We are now getting habituated to listening on a routine basis words and phrases like quarantine, lockdown, comorbidity, asymptomatic, social distancing, pandemic, community spread, herd immunity, containment zones, masks, sanitisers, PPE (personal protective equipment) thermal scanning, spike protein, ventilators and medicines like anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine or antiviral remdesivir that bring a new reality in our day-to-day life and consciousness.