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다행히

 퇴근시간에는 비가

많이 내리지 않아서 

어렵지 않게 집에 도착했습니다.

 

이태원발 코로나 확산도

아직 안심할 수는 없지만

생각보다 심각하지 않은 듯해

질본 관계자 분들, 의료진 분들

사회적 거리두기를 실천하는 

여러분들 모두

 고생한 덕분이라고 생각합니다.

 

오랜만에 내린 비가 

코로나 바이러스까지 속시원히 

쓸어 내려주었으면 합니다. 

 

오늘도 행복한 하루 되세요.

 

 

▶News Focus 1

 

As the planet battles the spread of the coronavirus, Antarctica remains the only COVID-19-free continent — thanks in the main to strict security and a little luck. Antarctica caught a break when the start of the crisis coincided with the end of the tourist season, which brings around 50,000 visitors a year on cruise ships. The continent also dodged a bullet when an Australian tour ship was forced to turn back when the first cases of COVID-19 were discovered aboard, an outbreak which eventually affected nearly all 217 passengers and crew.

 

>> catch a break : 기회를 잡다, 휴식을 취하다

>> in the main :  대부분 (대체로)

>> dodge a bullet : 문제를 (간신히) 피하다

>> aboard : 탑승한 (on board)

 

 

▶News Focus 2

 

Robots and drones equipped with infrared cameras could patrol holiday destinations and enforce social distancing rules under new EU plans to save the summer break. The equipment could show up in places like airports, beaches, resorts and restaurants to make sure that people keep at least 1.5 meters away from each other. On-board infrared cameras could allow the robots to measure people's temperatures from a distance and identify people with a fever that need to self-isolate.

 

>> self-isolate : 자가 격리하다

>> equipped with : ~를 갖춘

>> social distancing : 사회적 거리두기

>> from a distance : 멀리서

 

 

▶News Focus 3

 

A Chinese panda breeding centre has given coronavirus tests to all of its bears amid fears that the fluffy animals could also contract COVID-19. The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, which has 208 pandas, arranged the mass testing after some zoo animals in the United States had caught the bug. All of the pandas turned out to be healthy, said Zhang Zhihe, the secretary of the base.

 

>> fluffy : 솜털로 뒤덮힌

>> amid fears that : ~ 라는 공포감으로 

>> turn out : ~ 로 판명되다