As more and more people go through the coronavirus, the question of when they stop being infections becomes more important. It is commonly accepted that the incubation period of COVID-19 is between 1 and 14 days, with most common 5-6 days (World Health Organization data). It is established that an ill person starts to spread […]
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Unlike many others, I wrote this post first in Russian, and it is Russia-specific to some extent. So, here are some key points: Undoubtedly, distance learning is a defective substitute for normal classroom learning for pupils. But is it a sufficient reason to bring pupils back to schools during record figures of new COVID-19 cases?
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Majority of European countries and, unfortunately, not only European, experience new peaks of coronavirus these weeks. People, tired of limitations, who were able to ease restrictions in summer months in comparison with spring now face the choice of how to behave: whether to follow recommendations and come back to strict restrictions or just to take
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As the pandemic spreads, more and more people go through the coronavirus. So, more people ask themselves questions: Am I no longer ill? Am I no longer contagious for others? It was investigated that the ill person is the most contagious in the beginning of the illness, when symptoms are only starting to appear. Then
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The World Health Organization Director General, Mr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, gave a speech the day before yesterday. Here is a part of his opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19. Read it carefully – I hope it would let you take better choices and make better decisions. “The pandemic has disrupted the lives of
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If a person from 2019 would walk down today streets and use public transport, he/she would notice little difference. Perhaps some strange people wear face masks under their chin and just a few wear then covering face. The world is under a pandemic? Come on, you can’t be serious! The vast majority of people behave
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It is a debated question, so, if there are different opinions, there are good reasons not to wear masks, so why bother? Here are a few reasons why you should better wear masks. The World Health Organization changed its guidelines some time ago and now recommends to wear masks in public places. I guess WHO
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The Musée d’Orsay (pronounced mjuːzeɪ dɔːrˈseɪ) is one of principal art museums not only in Paris but in the whole world. It is also the main world’s museum for pieces of impressionist and post-impressionist art. Using the Google Arts & Culture project, here you can see nearly 300 masterpieces of Van Gogh, Renoir, Manet, Cézanne, Degas
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According to new research of physicians, skin rash may be another first symptom of coronavirus. To remind, the most common symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, fatigue, a dry cough, body aches, loss of appetite, shortness of breath and mucus or phlegm. Less common coronavirus symptoms include headache, sore throat, chills, loss of smell or taste,
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People are very tired of quarantine measures and need to work, to get their regular health treatment, to go to beauty saloons after all. Businesses and countries’ economies suffer much from each day of the quarantine. So governments are very keen on easing the restrictions. From the other side, easing the restrictions means more contacts
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