PHYSICAL DISTANCING AND SOCIAL DISTANCING: WHICH IS APPROPRIATE TO USE AS A LANGUAGE UNDER THIS COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS? A CONTEXTUAL EXPLORATION FOR ANALYSIS
- Department of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, University of The Gambia, Brikama.
- Department of Nursing and Reproductive Health, School of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of The Gambia, Banjul.
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The world, once a while, in every century witnesses a virus spread of pandemic phenomenon. The year 2020 in the 21st century is not spared with the outbreak of a new strain of corona virus named (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization (WHO). This paper explored with a contextual underpinning the appropriate language to use in communities to curtail the spread of the epidemic. Is it social distancing or physical distancing and how will the word fit in to address how people protect/should protect themselves against infection and/or infecting others? What are (WHO’s) advice on this and how significant has that been to fighting COVID-19 to submission? These and many more were the contextual explorations from this novel thought. While the paper used pure descriptive method of analysis using data from both primary and secondary sources that are empirically verifying, the findings of the research posited physical distancing as best appropriate a language for use in the COVID-19 period.
[Oyejide Felix Omotosho, Oluwatomilayo Felicity Omotosho and Tobiloba Oyejide Alex Omotosho (2020); PHYSICAL DISTANCING AND SOCIAL DISTANCING: WHICH IS APPROPRIATE TO USE AS A LANGUAGE UNDER THIS COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS? A CONTEXTUAL EXPLORATION FOR ANALYSIS Int. J. of Adv. Res. 8 (Jun). 1361-1371] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
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