#3 COVID: One year on

6 Minute English  Covid: One year on:

✔the keyword in the podcast:

1.pandemic: 

   →In some parts of the world malaria is still pandemic.

2.take hold:  

  →The economic recovery is just beginning to take hold now.

3.wimpy:

   → Some people are horribly wimpy about sickness.

4.sheer: 

   → His success was due to sheer willpower.

5.kick in: 

   → Hence the special holiday offers about to kick in.

6.genome: 

   → For the last 20 years researchers have been able to calculate genome sizes and mutation 

        rates.

7.outbreak:

   → The system started to operate in late 1914, a few months after the outbreak of war in  

        Europe.

8.vaccine:

   → The vaccine brings hope to 1,300 young children struck down by the Hib form of deadly

        disease every year.

9.feeble:

   → He did not remember his sister at all, except as a tiny, feeble baby.

10.lockdown:

     → The school went into lockdown after the shooting.

11.death toll:

     → If the civil unrest continues, the death toll will rise.

12.spread:

    → News of the explosion spread swiftly.

13.zoologist:

     → It is written from the point of view of zoologists although it is biochemical in content.

14. virus:

      → Doctors fear that a new strain of the virus will appear.

15.virologist:

     → The world-leading virologist has joined the new EU COVID-19 advisory team.