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COVID-19 is no longer a pandemic but a syndrome, what does it mean?

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The World Health Organization or WHO had prescribes Corona virus which occurred almost all over the world is as a global pandemic.

There are already tens of millions of people infected with the virus.

Several countries are still struggling to prevent transmission and eliminate the virus.



The high number of Corona cases from each country, the government also recommends doing so lockdown in various regions.

This was done in order to reduce the transmission rate of the COVID-19 virus. Seeing this situation, the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal The Lancet, Richard Horton, assessed that COVID-19 was no longer a pandemic but I don’t know.

Reporting from BBC, Sindemi is the acronym for the words synergy and pandemic which means COVID-19 must not stand alone.

On the one hand, SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. On the other hand there are a series of diseases that a person already has.

The two elements will interact in the context of deep social inequality.

Sindemi is also not a new term. This word was coined by American medical anthropologist Merill Singer in the 1990s.

The word is used by two or more interacting diseases that cause greater harm.

“The impact of this interaction is also facilitated by social and environmental conditions that can somehow bring the two diseases together or make populations more vulnerable to their effects,” Singer said.

For this reason, in order to prevent and eradicate the Corona virus, people are urged to always apply health protocol.

The National Disaster Management Agency or BNPB also appealed to the public to always adopt the 3M lifestyle, namely washing hands, wearing masks, and maintaining distance.

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