STOP THE SPREAD: DO THE FIVE

The World Health Organization (WHO) has now shared five practical steps for everyone to follow.

The World Health Organization is advising people to follow five simple steps to help prevent the spread of COVID-19:

1. Wash your hands

After coughing or sneezing when caring for the sick before, during and after you prepare food before eating after toilet use when hands are visibly dirty after handling animals or animal waste

2. Cough/sneeze into your elbow

Completely cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or a sleeve or flexed elbow when coughing or sneezing. Throw the used tissue into a closed bin immediately after use. Clean hands with soap and water or alcohol-based hand rub after coughing or sneezing and when caring for the sick

3. Don't touch your face

4. Stay more than 3 feet (1 meter) away from others

5. Stay home if you feel sick

By touching your face, the pathogens have an easy chance to infect you if they have made it onto your hands. Face-touching is a natural and often hard to avoid behavior. This is why it is so important to wash your hands.

Physical distance, on the other hand, makes it much harder for pathogens to spread from one person to another. It is now wise to minimize physical proximity to anyone unless necessary.

Unless you need to buy food, medicine, or other necessary items you should self-isolate at home.

Source: Psychology Today & World Health Organization