How to Prevent From Coronavirus

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus.

Most people who fall sick with COVID-19 will experience mild to moderate symptoms and recover without special treatment.

Protect yourself and others from COVID-19

If COVID-19 is spreading in your community, stay safe by taking some simple precautions, such as social distancing, wearing a mask, keeping rooms well ventilated, avoiding crowds, cleaning your hands, and coughing into a bent elbow or tissue.

Here are certain preventions you can take to avoid getting in the trap of this virus:

• Maintain at least a 1-metre distance between yourself and others to reduce your risk of infection when they cough, sneeze or speak.
• Maintain an even greater distance between yourself and others when indoors. The further away, the better.
• Make wearing a mask a normal part of being around other people.
• Clean your hands before you put your mask on, as well as before and after you take it off.
• Make sure it covers both your nose, mouth and chin.
• Regularly and thoroughly clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water.
• This eliminates germs including viruses that may be on your hands.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth.
• Hands touch many surfaces and can pick up viruses.
• Once contaminated, hands can transfer the virus to your eyes, nose or mouth. From there, the virus can enter your body and infect you.
• Cover your mouth and nose with your bent elbow or tissue when you cough or sneeze. Then dispose of the used tissue immediately into a closed bin and wash your hands.
• By following good ‘respiratory hygiene’, you protect the people around you from viruses, which cause colds, flu and COVID-19.
• Clean and disinfect surfaces frequently especially those which are regularly touched, such as door handles, faucets and phone screens.
• Know the full range of symptoms of COVID-19.
• The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, dry cough, and tiredness.
• Other symptoms that are less common and may affect some patients include loss of taste or smell, aches and pains, headache, sore throat, nasal congestion, red eyes, diarrhoea, or a skin rash.
• Stay home and self-isolate even if you have minor symptoms such as cough, headache, mild fever, until you recover.
• Call your health care provider or hotline for advice. Have someone bring you supplies.
• If you need to leave your house or have someone near you, wear a medical mask to avoid infecting others.
• If you have a fever, cough and difficulty breathing, seek medical attention immediately.
• Call by telephone first, if you can and follow the directions of your local health authority.
• Keep up to date on the latest information from trusted sources, such as WHO or your local and national health authorities.
• Local and national authorities and public health units are best placed to advise on what people in your area should be doing to protect themselves.