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Self-isolation, social distancing and wellbeing
I’ve recently written a couple of posts about the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the situation has dramatically changed since then; the number of cases and coronavirus-related deaths has sharply increased around the world. As I am writing this post, the death toll has reached 422 in the UK alone, whereas the total number of confirmed cases is now 8,077 across the country. On a global level, so far we have had 18,251 fatalities and 407,678 confirmed cases. As many countries are now in lockdown (including the UK as of this week), the terms ‘self-isolation’ and ‘social distancing’ have entered our daily vocabulary. In these challenging times, we should not forget our…