Online Class Notes (Mike)

Write about your feeling/experience of the lockdown.

There are hundreds of confirmed cases broke out these days, so many compounds were locked down in order that reduce transmission.The people had to covid test so as to timely discover existence of covid,and then were arranged quarantine timely to reduce community transmissiona.

There is a small outbreak in Shanghai last week. There has been hundreds of confirmed since then. Many compounds were locked down in order to reduce transmission. Local residence have to do covid test to find out Covid cases, if there is confirmed cases, then the community would be in lockdown.

Vocabulary

contagious (adj.) = infectious

Omicron

transmit (v) transmit

deadly (adj.)

fate (n) – fatal

virulent (adj.) （病毒）致命的

mortality rate 死亡率

mortal (n/adj.) 会枯萎/死亡/腐朽的. 凡人/凡夫俗子
mort- 身体的死亡
We are all mortal beings.
Million of people in Ukraine are in mortal danger.
Every living creature is mortal.

immortal (adj.) 不朽的，不会死亡的，长生不老的，永生的

The Immortals 神仙

morgue (n) 太平间

postmortem (n/adj.) 身后事，死后的
postmortem examination 验尸

spread (v)

incubation period (n) 潜伏期

mutation (n)
mutate (v) 突变
mutant (n/adj.) 突变体，变异体

lung (n) 肺

symptom (n) 症状

Omicron spreads way fast than Delta.
Omicron is more transmissible than Delta.