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Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen explore the question "Has the virus COVID-19 been here before?"
Richard Trudgen and Djiniyini Gondarra discuss the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19.  Yolngu people are seeing lots of trouble and conflict over the Covid-19 virus in New South Wales and Victoria. What is making these people sick? Is it the same Covid-19 virus?
Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen discuss different Coronavirus issues, such as why is Arnhem Land a restricted area, how long will the virus last, and the meaning of term 'second wave'.
Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen are joined by microbiologist, Dr Kerry Mills, to discuss how COVID-19 has travelled from China to other places around the world.
Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen talk about the World Health Organisation (WHO)
Richard Trudgen and Djiniyini Gondarra talk about what 'opening up' means. Many Balanda are getting vaccine injections at the moment. What will happen to people who haven’t had the injection? Will they stop the 'opening up'?
Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen talk about the old Balanda culture around hygiene & what happened when people moved from villages to cities
Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen are joined by Dr Kerry Mills, who explains how coronavirus can move from one person to another in three different ways, when people cough, sneeze or speak.
Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen talk about the meaning of the name COVID 19
Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen discuss how germs were discovered and that it took some time for people to connect the idea of germs to disease/illness.
Dr Kerry Mills explains that when you cough, sneeze, or speak, the droplets that come out of your body are different sizes. The big ones are heavier so they drop to the ground, but the little droplets float into the air. These are the most dangerous because they cannot be seen. You can talk about them in relation to being able to smell salt water from a long way from the beach. The difference however, is that salt water can be smelt, but you cannot smell the little droplets with viruses in them.
Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen talk about are there 2 diseases with 2 different names?
Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen discuss the traditional Yolŋu social distancing law, and they explore the right Yolŋu Matha word for virus. They also discuss the search for medicine for Coronavirus.
Richard Trudgen and Djiniyini Gondarra are joined by Dr Kerry Mills, who explains the dangers of being inside a room if somebody who has the virus in their body.
Coronavirus – Mr C. Yunupingu, and Richard Trudgen start the discussion in the Introduction to Coronavirus