As China’s epidemic remains to flatten, things may look scary. Here are 10 simple precautions that can prevent you from contracting a coronavirus.
Medical staff arms wore protective clothing when they came with a patient at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in China on 25-Jan-2020.
As the new Wuhan Coronavirus has spread not only in mainland China but also in increasing terror around the world. Feelings of helplessness are increasing inside China, as the government is forced to take drastic measures to curb the virus, including some travel restrictions in Beijing. I received disgusting questions from journalists and public health workers in China, asking, “How can we protect ourselves and our families?”
Is it too late?
The epidemic could be controlled fairly easily three weeks before there were more openness, faster action, and no effort. But now it is too late, and the virus is spreading globally. Since there is no vaccine or treatment for nCoV2019-Wuhan pneumonia and the infection has spread throughout China, the government has to turn to the 2003 SARS Playbook. And this means that entire cities must be cut off, and the nation’s population should be restricted in its movements and potential disease-spreading behavior. It is not shocking that traveling from Beijing can be restricted; The entire mainland may quickly go on lockdown.
How to protect yourself
I know that people are very afraid. And I hope that the panic will increase in the coming days. But very simple measures can protect you.
During the SARS disease, I wandered all over China and Hong Kong, surveying people infected with the virus, physicians and nurses, people treating the disease, government officials, police. I never worried that I would get infected despite being in a room with sick people. And this is because I knew what precautions should be taken. These are the most important to know:
1. Wear Gloves
When you leave your home, wear gloves – winter soils or outdoor gloves – and keep them on subways, buses, and public places.
2. Manage Hands
If you are in a social situation where you should take off your gloves, maybe do not touch your face or eyes to shake hands or eat food, no matter how itchy. Manage your hands away from contact with your face. And before you bring your gloves back, wash your hands thoroughly with soap and warm water, scrub the fingers. Put on your gloves.
3. Change gloves daily, wash them thoroughly, and avoid wearing damp gloves.
4. Use Mask
Masks are useless when worn outdoors and may not be very useful even indoors. Most masks go bad after wearing one or two. Using the same mask from day to day is worse than useless – it is disgusting because the contents of your mouth and nose are eventually inside the mask with a foul veneer that is engaging to bacteria. I rarely wear a face mask in an epidemic, and I’ve been in over 30 outbreaks. Instead, I stay away from the crowd, and I maintain my distance from individual people – a half meter, about 1.5 feet, is a good standard. If someone is sneezing or coughing or both, I ask them to apply masks to protect them from their potentially infected fluids. If they fall, I move one meter (about 3 feet) away from them, or I leave.
#Do not Shake Hands
Do not shake hands or hug people – beg politely saying that both of you shouldn’t come in close contact during an epidemic.
5. Removing Towels
Immediately remove all the towels from your bathroom and kitchen, inside your home, and replace them with a clean towel that bears the name of each family member. Instruct all the people in your household to use only their towels and never touch any other family member. Wash all towels twice a week. Moist towels provide terrific homes for viruses such as common cold, cases of flu, and, yes, coronavirus.
6. Beware of doorknobs.
If it is possible to open and close the doors using your elbow or shoulder, do so. Wear gloves to turn the doorknob — or wash your hands after touching it. If anyone in your household is ill, wash your bourbon regularly. Likewise, be vigilant with ladder restrictions, desktops, cell phones, toys, laptops – any item that is handcuffed. As long as you only handle your personal items, you’ll be fine — but if you need to pick up someone else’s cell phone or cooking device or use someone else’s computer keyboard, don’t put your face Be careful not to touch and wash your hands immediately.
7. Avoid Sharing
If you share food, do not use your personal chopic and utensils to remove food from a serving bowl or plate and, do not let your children drink out of someone else’s cup or container of shared liquids. Say. In China, it is customary to prepare many dishes for food and then allow everyone at the table to use their personal chopsticks to pull food from the common dish: do not do so until the epidemic is over. Place the serving spoon in each dish and instruct everyone on the table what they want from the dishes served in their individual plates or bowls, return the serving spoon to the main drink, and then take a personalized chopstick to take food from their own . Use a plate or bowl in their mouth. Wash all meals and kitchens well between meals and meals from restaurants that are poor hygiene food.
8. Avoid Red Meat or Sea Foods
Do not buy, slaughter or consume any living animal or fish unless it is known what the source of the species virus was.
9. Keep Close Windows/Doors
When the weather allows, open your windows at home or work, so that your space gets a breeze. In a way, the virus cannot roam in Hisar. But of course, if it is cold or the weather is bad, keep warm and close those rooms.
10. How to react
Finally, if you are caring for a friend or family member who is running with fever, always wear tight-fitting workfare when you are near them, and keep a spot on the sick person (unless ) That they do not have nausea). When you remove an old, dirty mask from your friend’s face or love someone, be very careful, for your safety, assuming it is covered in viruses, and handle it while wearing latexes, Put it inside in a disposable container, seal it, and then dump it in the trash. At the time of wearing those latexats, wash the patient’s face with warm soap and water, use a disposable paper towel or cotton swab, and allow it to seal after use in a container or plastic bag before placing it in your household dustbin.
Stay Safe
Wear long-sleeved shirts and clothes when you are caring for your sick friend or relative. Clean everything that your patients wear or touch very well in warm soapy water, including sheets, towels, and utensils. If you have space, separate the sick person in your house in a room, or a corner of a room where they live comfortably, but separate from the rest of the house’s members. If the weather is tolerable, open a window that is in the opposite direction of the room, allowing air to flow slowly over the patient’s face and then outward. Of course, do not do this if it is too cold, because your friend or loved one will be made ill if it is uncomfortably cold.
Stay safe. Do not panic. Be careful in vain. At the moment as it is, you will get through it.