Coronavirus tag: How the pandemic can affect young minds

Nine-year-old Eve looks out of the front window at home, as the number of coronavirus disease cases (COVID-19) grow around the world, in London, Britain. March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) - It's a bit like tag, except that you get tagged when someone coughs on you and that means you have the virus and have to go into isolation. If you come out and get tagged again, you die.

Child psychotherapists say playground games in the time of COVID-19 are becoming infused with words that many of the children playing them had never heard before: pandemic, isolation, lockdown.