People all over the world have been fighting for a long-lasting battle against corona virus since the end of 2019.
The launch of new vaccine has lighted up the hope of preventing COVID-19 although anti-infection has been part of our daily life as a new normal in our society. However, we are yet to see the end of the tunnel. You should continue to protect yourself and your family and help the society to battle COVID-19 and get back to normal life.
Wearing mask
It has been proved that wearing a mask is one of the most effective ways for limiting the spread of COVID-19. Do mask up in public areas both in-door or out-door. You should learn more about
choosing an appropriate maskand
the correct way of wear mask e.g. practice hands hygiene before wearing and after removing a mask.
Washing hands frequently
Virus can damage the organs once it enters our body. The simplest precaution we can do is always keep hand hygiene and avoid touching mouth, nose and eyes with hands through which virus could enter our body. Sanitize hands with alcohol-based handrub or wet-wipe after touching elevator buttons, handrail, door handles, covering your cough or sneeze and even shopping outside and taking public transports. If there is handwashing facility around,
wash and rub your hands with soap and water right away for 20 seconds, then dry with tissue or towel. When you are home, you may
apply some hand cream after washing hands.
Keep the environment and clothes clean
Virus spread ragingly. It is very important to practice good hygiene at home.
Clean all the surface around with detergent. If needed, clean them with disinfectant or diluted bleach (use 1 in 99 water, that is, 50ml of household bleach into 4950ml of water). To avoid virus spreading, you are also advised to pour 1/2L water into all the pipes at home weekly to make sure the U-traps contain sufficient water.
Furthermore, always keeps clothes clean to avoid bringing bacteria and virus home. As you know, you cannot help being exposed to bacteria and virus on the street. Hence, you should take off the mask, glasses and gloves, etc, immediately when you return home and handle all of them properly. Clothes, scarfs, bags and shoes have to be sanitized with spraying alcohol and put the clothes into the washing machine at once. Doing all of these can help your home safe from virus.
Drink and exercise more
The simplest way to keep healthy in pandemic is to
drink a lot of waterand keep doing exercise constantly.
Sufficient water intake can efficiently help blood transit nutrition and oxygen and flush out hormone, toxin and metabolic waste.
Daily intake of 7 to 8 cups of water is suggested for adult to meet the liquid balance in our physical body. Liquor like, water, drinks and soup are included. And you should keep doing exercise constantly at home. There are
a lot of exercises and simple sports，you can do during the commercial break in between TV programmes to relax your muscles.
Keep social distancing
Many people infected by the virus have no obvious symptoms at the early stage, thus, don’t know they are carriers. We should reduce social contact and gathering, especially avoid going to dinners and having drinks when masks would be taken off. Keep at least 1 meter distance with others in the queue or meeting. Use serving chopsticks and spoons and avoid crowded places. Perhaps you can also take this opportunity to do more
cooking at home and enjoy some new dishes.
Seek medical advice if feeling unwell
Seek medical advice promptly if feeling unwell, even if the symptoms are mild.
|
Diseases |
Clinical symptoms |
Incubation period |
Ways of spreads |
|
COVID-19 |
Cough, Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, cough up yellow and green sputum, |
7 to 14 days |
direct contact with respiratory droplets, contagion and infected by animals. |
|
Pneumonia |
Fever, cough, sore throat, |
7 to 28 days |
direct contact with respiratory droplets |
|
SARS |
Cough, difficulty breathing, fatigue, headache, diarrhea, fever |
2 to 7 days |
|
Influenza |
Runny nose, sneezing, cough,. High fever, muscle ache, diarrhea, vomiting |
1 to 4 days |
Cough, sneezing and respiratory droplets and direct contact with mucus of the patients |
|
Cold / Flu |
Congestion, sore throat, fauces discomfort |
1 days |
Droplets and direct contact with patient’s mucus |
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Senior peoples should stay at home as far as possible
If it is not necessary, seniors should avoid going out and consider asking families or friends to help with shopping daily necessities. They should also keep
doing exercise at home to stay healthy and improve immunity system.
Keep a record of your whereabouts
Record your whereabouts, like the license plate number of the taxi you took, photo the places you have been to. It can help with the tracing work. You can also record your daily schedule with “Leave Home Safe” app.
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Test to protect yourself and others
o protect yourself and your family, get tested if you consider you are at high risk of infection or worried of being infected. The Government has offered 7 ways for the public to do the virus
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