Penjarakan fizikal: Perbezaan antara semakan

[[Fail:Covid-19-curves-graphic-social-v2-ms-MY.gif|thumb|upright=1.6|Pencegahan puncak tajam jangkitan, dikenali sebagai meratakan [[lengkung wabak]], menghalang perkhidmatan penjagaan kesihatan daripada sesak, dan juga membekalkan lebih masa bagi vaksin/rawatan untuk dikembangkan. Penyebaran jangkitan dalam rangka masa yang lebih panjang membenarkan perkhidmatan penjagaan kesihatan mengurus jumlah pesakit dengan lebih baik.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wiles |first1=Siouxsie |title=The three phases of Covid-19 – and how we can make it manageable |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-03-2020/the-three-phases-of-covid-19-and-how-we-can-make-it-manageable/ |language=en |website=The Spinoff |accessdate=9 Mac 2020 |date=9 Mac 2020}}</ref><ref name=Lancet2020Flatten>{{Cite journal|last=Anderson|first=Roy M.|last2=Heesterbeek|first2=Hans|last3=Klinkenberg|first3=Don|last4=Hollingsworth|first4=T. Déirdre|date=9 March 2020|title=How will country-based mitigation measures influence the course of the COVID-19 epidemic?|url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30567-5/abstract|journal=The Lancet|language=en|volume=0|issue=10228|pages=931–934|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30567-5|issn=0140-6736|pmid=32164834|quote=A key issue for epidemiologists is helping policy makers decide the main objectives of mitigation—e.g., minimising morbidity and associated mortality, avoiding an epidemic peak that overwhelms health-care services, keeping the effects on the economy within manageable levels, and flattening the epidemic curve to wait for vaccine development and manufacture on scale and antiviral drug therapies.}}</ref>]]

[[Fail:Covid-19-curves-graphic2-stopthespread-v3-ms.gif|thumb|upright=1.6|Alternatif kepada [[meratakan lengkung]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wiles |first1=Siouxsie |title=After 'Flatten the Curve', we must now 'Stop the Spread'. Here's what that means |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-03-2020/after-flatten-the-curve-we-must-now-stop-the-spread-heres-what-that-means/ |language=en |website=The Spinoff |access-date=13 Mac 2020 |date=14 Mac 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Anderson RM, Heesterbeek H, Klinkenberg D, Hollingsworth TD | title = How will country-based mitigation measures influence the course of the COVID-19 epidemic? |language=en | journal = The Lancet | date = Mac 2020 | volume = 395 | issue = 10228 | pages = 931–934 | pmid = 32164834 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30567-5 }}</ref>]]

 

 

 

Dalam sejarah, [[perkampungan pesakit kusta]] dan [[lazaretto]] didirikan sebagai cara mencegah penyebaran [[penyakit kusta]] dan penyakit berjangkit yang lain melalui penjarakkan sosial,<ref>Charles Léon Souvay, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_%281913%29/Leprosy "Leprosy"], (dalam bahasa Inggeris) ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (1913), Volume 9.</ref> sehingga penularan difahami dan rawatan berkesan dicipta.