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Welcome to Sleep Tight Stories. Coronavirus. A book for children.
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by Elizabeth Jenner, Kate Wilson, and Nia Roberts. Illustrated by
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Axel Scheffler. There's a new word you might have heard.
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You might hear people talking about it, or you might
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hear it on the news. This word is the reason
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that you are not going to school. It is the
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reason you can't go outside very often or visit your friends.
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It might be the reason why the grown-up or grown-ups
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who look after you are at home. The word is coronavirus.
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But What is it? And why is everyone talking about it?
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The coronavirus is a kind of virus. Viruses are tiny
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germs that are so small that you can't see them.
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They are so light that they can float through the
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air in tiny drops of water, and they can sit
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on your skin without you feeling them. If some of
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these germs get inside you, they can use your body
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to make more germs, and that can make you ill.
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There are lots of different sorts of coronaviruses, and some
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of them infect people. If you have been infected with
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one of those coronaviruses, all you probably had was a
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snotty nose or a cough. But when this completely new
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coronavirus germ gets inside a human body, it causes an
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illness called COVID-19. When people talk about catching the coronavirus,
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they are talking about this illness. How do you catch
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the coronavirus? Because this coronavirus is new, scientists don't know
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everything about it yet. But they think that there are
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two main ways that people can catch it. Coronavirus germs
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live in people's throats and mouths. When someone who has
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the coronavirus coughs or sneezes or breathes out, the germs
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come out of their mouth in tiny drops of water.
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Though you can't see the germs you can sometimes see
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these tiny drops. In cold weather, they make a cloud
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of steam. So if someone else accidentally breathes in the
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air with the coronavirus germs in it, they would probably
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get the illness. It's easy to get the coronavirus germs
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from inside your body on your hands when you touch
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your nose or your mouth. If the person with the
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coronavirus germs on their hands uses a door, the invisible
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germs can live on the door handle for hours. When
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someone else opens the door, they get the germs on
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their hands, too. And if they touch their nose or mouth,
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the germs can get into their body. So you can
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also catch the coronavirus by touching things that someone with
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the virus has already touched. What happens if you catch
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the coronavirus? Some people, particularly most children, hardly feel ill
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at all when they get the coronavirus. But they still
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have coronavirus germs in their body that they could give
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to someone else by mistake. When they get the coronavirus,
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Lots of people get coughs and a high temperature. Some
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people also have a headache or aches all over their body.
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People are usually ill for a few days, but bodies
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are amazing things. When a new germ, like the coronavirus,
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gets into somebody's body, their body knows that the germ
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shouldn't be there and starts killing it. The body has
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an amazing weapon against viruses called antibodies. Tiny cells in
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your blood make antibodies to fight each different virus invader.
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The antibodies catch the viruses, then the blood cells swallow
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them up and destroy them. And then the person gets better.
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Each of us has more than 10 billion different kinds
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of antibody inside us. That means there are more different
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antibodies inside you right now than there are people in
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the world. So... Why are people worried about catching the coronavirus?
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Nearly everyone has a body that is healthy enough to
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fight the coronavirus. But there are some people who find
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it harder because their bodies aren't as strong. They might
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be people who are more than 70 years old. or
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already have other illnesses like cancer that might make their
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bodies weaker. They need more help to fight the coronavirus.
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This means they have to go to hospital and they
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might need to use a special machine called a ventilator
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to help them breathe. That's why these people really need
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to stay at home away from anywhere they might catch
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the coronavirus they won't be able to have visitors that
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might mean you won't be able to go and visit
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some of your family for a while to help keep
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them safe Is there a cure for the coronavirus? Most
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people get better from the coronavirus by themselves. But doctors
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and scientists want to help everyone do that quickly and safely.
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Doctors don't have a cure for the coronavirus yet because
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it is a new illness. Some medicines that doctors already
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know about might help, so they are trying them out
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on people who are ill. But even if they don't work,
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scientists are also working on making completely new medicines for
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the coronavirus that no one has ever had before. A
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Vaccine is a special medicine that is usually injected into
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your body while you are healthy. Inside the medicine are
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weak or dead virus germs. The antibodies in your blood
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can practice killing these germs so that if you catch
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that virus, they can start fighting the live virus germs faster.
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You probably already had some vaccines when you were a baby,
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so that means you won't get some illnesses. It takes
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many months to make a new medicine. Before you can
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give it to lots of people, you have to make
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sure that it is safe for everyone. So you have
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to try it out carefully on a few people at
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a time. Then, when you know it works and it
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is safe, you have to make enough for everyone who
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needs it. Why are some places we normally go to closed?
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Although lots of people will get better from the coronavirus,
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it's really important that people who might become very ill
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don't catch it. This means we need to make sure
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that as few people as possible get the coronavirus so
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that we don't pass it on to anyone who might
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get very ill. And if lots of people get ill
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and have to go to the hospital at the same time,
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then hospitals will get too busy to look after people properly.
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It's so easy to get the coronavirus that we need
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to be very careful that we don't get too near
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people who don't live with us. And that's why all
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the places where lots of people are together, like schools
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and libraries, are closed at the moment. The government of
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this country has said that people can only go outside
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of their homes if they really, really have to. Some people,
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like doctors or nurses or people who work in food
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shops or people who deliver things to our homes, have
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to go out of their homes to do the work.
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Most people can also go out of their home if
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they need to buy food or to exercise, but they
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must be very careful not to go near anyone else.
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If you or anyone in your family feels ill and
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thinks they might have the coronavirus, you can't come out
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of your house at all for two weeks. We all
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have to stay at home to protect the people who
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will find it hard to fight the coronavirus. What's it
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like to be at home all the time? Sometimes being
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at home with the people you live with can be
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great fun. You can do things together that you wouldn't
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normally do when you are at school or when the
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grownups are at work. But sometimes I feel bored. Sometimes
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I miss my friends. Sometimes I feel angry. Sometimes I
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feel sad. These are all normal things to feel. And
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everyone who lives with you probably feels the same way sometimes,
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even if they try not to show it. The grown-up
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or grown-ups who look after you might also feel worried.
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Sometimes they might feel worried about work. Sometimes it might
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be hard to buy the things that you all need.
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And that might worry them too. If you are worried,
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talk about your worries to a grown-up who looks after you.
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If you are still going to school... Maybe you could
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talk to a teacher. Or maybe you could talk to
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a teacher or someone else in your family on the
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phone or using a computer or tablet. What can I
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do to help? You are already helping a lot by
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staying at home. But you can also help by taking
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extra care to make sure you don't catch or pass
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on the coronavirus to anybody else. Did you know that
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viruses are killed by soap? So if you wash your
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hands really carefully and for long enough, you won't have
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any coronavirus germs on your hands. You can sing a
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song while you wash your hands to make sure you
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are washing them for long enough. long enough to sing
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happy birthday twice. If you have to wipe or blow
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your nose, use a tissue and put it in the
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trash straight away. Remember to wash your hands too because
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the coronavirus lives in your snot and it can get
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on your hands from the tissue. If you have to
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cough or sneeze do it into the inside corner of
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your elbow not onto your hand. Then you can't give
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the coronavirus to other people that way. If everyone does
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these things it will make a big difference. What else
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can I do? Another important thing you can do is
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to be kind to the people that you live with.
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Things will be different and perhaps difficult for all of you.
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If you live with brothers and sisters, you might sometimes
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find them annoying, but try not to fight with them.
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If you live with grown-ups, Maybe you can help them
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by doing what you've been asked to do or giving
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them a big hug. If you are not at school,
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do your schoolwork. It will help to keep your mind
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busy so you won't be bored. And then when you
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go back to school, you will have learned a lot.
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If you don't have a screen of your own, talk
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about how you can share screen time fairly with everyone
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who needs it. Remember, grown-ups who live with you might
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have to do work as well. If they do, you
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can help them by not disturbing them when they are
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trying to work. Then they will be more likely to
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have time to do fun things with you. Maybe you
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could make a list of things that you would like
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to do with them. What's going to happen next? This
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is a strange time for everybody, and it's happening all
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over the world. But if we are all careful and
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we all stay at home, we are doing what we
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can to stop the coronavirus spreading. And that gives the
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scientists and doctors time to work out how to cure
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the illness and maybe stop people getting it all together
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by using medicines and vaccines. One day, quite soon though,
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nobody knows exactly when, you'll be able to visit people
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you love who don't live with you, play with your friends,
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go to school again, and do lots of other things
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that you enjoy, but that you can't do now. One day,
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this strange time will be over. And we will have
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done it together. Thank you. you