Will Humans Be Able to Outsmart Covid-19? P4-5
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020 Dhul-Qa’da 9, 1441 AH Doha today: 290 - 400 COVER Wily virus STORY Will humans be able to outsmart Covid-19? P4-5 HOLLYWOOD BACK PAGE I am as vulnerable as An agent of anybody else: Hemsworth. positive living. 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This could be that story, insane conversations and really bad save the day at the very end. Tuesday, June 30, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY Parks: a place for perfect workout AFFECTING SKIN: Younger people with less severe Covid-19 might develop painful, itchy lesions on their hands and feet that resemble chilblains, an inflammatory skin condition. Unusual Covid-19 chilblains, an inflammatory symptoms skin condition. Sometimes called Covid toes, this symptom Coronavirus disease 2019 typically lasts about 12 days. (Covid-19) can cause a wide Covid-19 also has been reported range of signs and symptoms. to cause small, itchy blisters, The most common are fever, more commonly appearing before SPENDING TIME IN NATURE: Parks evolved from a social movement to retain the countryside amid the dry cough and tiredness. Other other symptoms and lasting encroachments of the Industrial Revolution, to give people somewhere to clear their lungs and spend time in nature, symptoms include shortness of about 10 days. Others might far more than a century before there were any studies to this effect. breath or difficulty breathing, develop hives or a rash with muscle aches, chills, sore flat and raised lesions. These have closed their visitor centres and with the inclines on your choice throat, headache, or chest pain. skin changes might last a week, By Zoe Williams landmarks, cancelled their events, of route – it would be a criminal But Covid-19 can also cause appear at the same time as other but the wide open space isn’t going waste of so much space to go the symptoms you might not expect, symptoms and are associated anywhere. same way every time. But it would including: with more severe infections. ational parks spent What you have to work with also be a waste to go too fast, when years trying to depends on where you are. At the this much effort has gone into Gastrointestinal symptoms: Confusion: remind everyone how time of writing, Welsh national the botany and wildlife, so even if Covid-19 might cause mild Covid-19 also has been important natural parks were only open to locals. Some you’re going for short bursts, mix gastrointestinal symptoms, reported to cause confusion in beauty is for the spirit, (the Peaks again) have amazing up the running with a Nordic walk. including a loss of appetite, older people, especially those Nand what an abundance of it they boulders and you can do your own A quarter of all the rarest species nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. with severe infections. have. Then, suddenly, everyone mini-hipster-triathlon, running, in the UK are found in the Norfolk These symptoms might only discovered them at once, in the cycling, bouldering. I went to the Broads. last one day. Some people with Eye problems: middle of a lockdown, and they had South Downs for the track bike There aren’t many rules, and Covid-19 have diarrhoea and Covid-19 might cause eye to do a handbrake turn and persuade paths, which are mainly stone-free those they do have will be written nausea prior to developing fever problems such as enlarged, red us all to enjoy them online instead. enough for a road bike. The national on site (such as “Don’t tread on this and respiratory symptoms. blood vessels, swollen eyelids, However, now you’re allowed to park doesn’t exist that isn’t fun to plant”). But you have to use the dog excessive watering and increased travel for exercise, they are back in run in. Some have mountain bike sense you were born with. Don’t Loss of smell or taste: discharge. The infection also action, with the important rider: trails, others wild ponies who prefer run up to sheep; they don’t like it. Covid-19 might cause a new might cause light sensitivity and check what the rules are before you you not to do that. You can always They don’t mind if you run past loss of smell or taste — without irritation. These symptoms are set off and if it feels too crowded, call ahead. There are places where them. Cattle are a bit more skittish. nasal congestion. This typically more common in people with it is. the wildlife is so stunning (the Parks evolved from a social lasts nine to 14 days. Some severe infections. There are 15 parks in all; if you Pembrokeshire coast has basking movement to retain the countryside research suggests that loss of Signs and symptoms of have been to any, you’ll have a sharks) that you’ll get distracted. amid the encroachments of the smell or taste might be an early coronavirus disease 2019 favourite (mine is the Peak District). Maybe don’t see it as a distraction; Industrial Revolution, to give predictor of Covid-19. (Covid-19) may appear two to You possibly haven’t been to them maybe see it as the point. people somewhere to clear their 14 days after exposure to the all, unless you’re methodically Start by figuring out how much lungs and spend time in nature, far Skin changes: virus and can range from mild ticking them off. Originally, thinking time you have, and when: if it’s a more than a century before there Younger people with less to severe. If you think you might of the health benefits, it was all half day once a week, rambling is were any studies to this effect. severe Covid-19 might develop be experiencing symptoms of about the air quality – a municipal better than running, unless you have They were a gift to one another that painful, itchy lesions on their Covid-19, call your doctor. – park doesn’t compare: there simply stamina. If it’s 20 minutes a day, you money couldn’t touch or buy. hands and feet that resemble Mayo Clinic News Network/TNS are no other Yorkshire Dales. They can still vary your workload simply – The Guardian 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, June 30, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Playing for time? People susceptible to becoming hosts find that infected immune defences “forget” the virus that has made them ill before. Studies suggests that in many who were infected, immunity is either weak or transient, warns Melissa Healy o prevent a dangerous infection so far seem to be squarely new virus from having its in its sights. way with humankind, you But humankind has a few tricks of might take a page from its own. (From a virus’s point of view, the Chinese warrior king In fits and starts, public health TSun Tzu, and think like the enemy.