Epidemic or Pandemic ? Learn the difference

Hello my dear friends , I hope you are doing better , I know we are living difficult days all over the world due to the spread of the Covid disease , my heart is with you , although my country is also living under pressure , we just hope the situation to change for better in the coming days after application of confinement in my country , as well as most countries in the world

Let's get in the language part , I guess you are one as many that notice the use of a set of vocabulary related to diseases recently , that will explain them in detail in this post , including the difference epidemic and pandemic , this word that we heard much recently , but what makes pandemic different than epidemic ?

First , what is Epidemy ?

It's a disease , which spreads rapidly in a population in a short time , we usually use epidemy to describe a disease within a limited geographic area.

We start to talk about a pandemic when the disease spread all over the country or cross it to another country , and that's why we use it to talk about the actual Corona Virus Disease (or COVID as an abbreviation)  , it was discovered in China and spread to neighbouring continents to reach all the world 

To describe this rapid spread of this disease , we use the word outbreak , which means a sudden increase of infections in a particular time and a limited geographical area

To sum up : 

Outbreak (city) > Epidemic (country) >Pandemic (global)

to deal with this situation , governments had to close all borders and ask the population to stay home for 2 weeks to avoid the spread of the virus and control the infected cases , this measure is known for confinement , which is applied now in most of the countries .

So friends , these were some definitions for the outbreak vocabulary ,hope you enjoy it :) If you like this post , please give some minutes to share it with your friends and help them to learn new words :) also don't forget to subscribe, to be the first one to read new posts , see you soon ^^