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Take Care — World Health Organization.
Wash your hands frequently.
Wash your hands frequently with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand rub if your hands are not visibly dirty.
Why? Washing your hands with soap and water or using alcohol-based hand rub eliminates the virus if it is on your hands.
Practice respiratory hygiene
When coughing and sneezing, cover mouth and nose with flexed elbow or tissue – discard tissue immediately into a closed bin and clean your hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
Why? Covering your mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing prevent the spread of germs and viruses. If you sneeze or cough into your hands, you may contaminate objects or people that you touch.
Maintain Social Distancing
Maintain at least 1 meter (3 feet) distance between yourself and other people, particularly those who are coughing, sneezing and have a fever.
Why? When someone who is infected with a respiratory disease, like 2019-nCoV, coughs or sneezes they project small droplets containing the virus. If you are too close, you can breathe in the virus.
Avoid Touching Eyes, Nose And Mouth
Why? Hands touch many surfaces which can be contaminated with the virus. If you touch your eyes, nose or mouth with your contaminated hands, you can transfer the virus from the surface to yourself.
If You Have Fever, Cough And Difficulty Breathing, Seek Medical Care Early
Tell your health care provider if you have traveled in an area in China where 2019-nCoV has been reported, or if you have been in close contact with someone with who has traveled from China and has respiratory symptoms.
Why? Whenever you have fever, cough and difficulty breathing it’s important to seek medical attention promptly as this may be due to a respiratory infection or other serious condition. Respiratory symptoms with fever can have a range of causes, and depending on your personal travel history and circumstances, 2019-nCoV could be one of them.
If You Have Mild Respiratory Symptoms And No Travel History To Or Within China
If you have mild respiratory symptoms and no travel history to or within China, carefully practice basic respiratory and hand hygiene and stay home until you are recovered, if possible.
As A General Precaution, Practice General Hygiene Measures When Visiting Live Animal Markets, Wet Markets Or Animal Product Markets
Ensure regular hand washing with soap and potable water after touching animals and animal products; avoid touching eyes, nose or mouth with hands; and avoid contact with sick animals or spoiled animal products. Strictly avoid any contact with other animals in the market (e.g., stray cats and dogs, rodents, birds, bats). Avoid contact with potentially contaminated animal waste or fluids on the soil or structures of shops and market facilities.
Avoid Consumption of Raw Or Under cooked Animal Products
Handle raw meat, milk or animal organs with care, to avoid cross-contamination with uncooked foods, as per good food safety practices.
Protect Yourself And Others From Getting Sick
Wash Your Hands
Wash your hands with running water when hands are visibly dirty
If your hands are not visibly dirty, frequently clean them by using alcohol- based hand rub or soap and water.
After coughing or sneezing
When caring for the sick
Before, during and after you prepare the food
Before eating
After Toilet Use
When hands are visibly dirty
After handling animals or animal waste
Protect Others From Getting Sick
When coughing and sneezing cover mouth and nose with flexed elbow or tissue
Throw tissue into closed bin immediately after use.
Clean hands with alcohol based hand rub or soap and water after coughing or sneezing and when caring for the sick.
Avoid close contact when you are experiencing cough and fever.
Avoid Spitting In Public
If you have fever, cough and difficulty breathing, seek medical care early and share previous travel history with your health care provider.
Practice Food Safety
Use different chopping boards and knives for raw meat and cooked foods
Wash Your Hands Between Handling Raw And Cooked Food
Sick animals and animals have died of diseases should not be eaten
Even in areas experiencing outbreaks, meat products can be safely consumed if these items are cooked thoroughly and properly handled during food preparation.
Wear protective gowns, gloves and facial protection while handling animals and animal products.
Remove protective clothing after work, wash daily and leave those at the work site.
Avoid exposing family members to soiled work clothing and shoes.
Disinfect equipment and working area at least once a day.
Stay Healthy While Travelling
Avoid travel if you have fever and cough
If you have fever cough and difficulty breathing seek medical care early and share previous travel history with your health care provider.
Avoid close contact with people suffering from fever and cough
Frequently clean hands by using alcohol –based hand rub or soap and water
Avoid touching eyes, nose or mouth.
While coughing and sneezing cover mouth and nose with flexed elbow or tissue-throw tissue away immediately and wash hands.
If you choose to wear a face mask be sure to cover mouth and nose. Avoid touching mask once it’s on.
Immediately discard single use mask after each use and wash hands after removing masks.
If you become sick while travelling, inform crew and seek medical care early.
Eat only well cooked food
Avoid spitting in public
Avoid close contact and travel with animals that are sick.
Instructions from World Health Organization