How to protect yourself from coronavirus if you need to return to work

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

These simple rules will help you stay healthy.

1. Keep your distance

A distance of about one and a half meters is considered safe. How to Protect Yourself & Others. When you are walking, running, cycling fast, it can grow up to 4–20 meters.

If you keep such a distance from others, the smallest droplets of saliva that another - possibly infected - person secretes when talking, coughing, breathing, will not reach you. And you, in turn, will not share your own.

2. Try to change your work schedule

Your job is to make it possible to get to and from work before or after rush hour. In this case, you do not have to push in crowded public transport or walk on crowded streets where it is difficult to keep your distance.

Talk to your boss: it is possible that your working hours will be accommodated and shifted.

3. Use less public transport

If possible, use your car, bike, or walk to work. Naturally, at a safe distance from others.

And try not to use the elevators. Even if the cab comes empty, you do not know who was driving in it 10 seconds before you. The virus may still be airborne.

4. Wear a mask on your way to work

On the street, if you are absolutely healthy, and there are few people around, you can do without it. When and how to use masks - World Health Organization. But only if the authorities of your region do not require otherwise.

But in the subway, bus, tram or taxi, you should definitely not appear without a mask. Firstly, it is dangerous, because it is more difficult to maintain a distance there. Secondly, you can earn a fine. So, in Moscow, a person without a mask and gloves in public transport can be fined 5,000 rubles, and in St. Petersburg - 4,000.

5. Wear a mask in the workplace

All day. In Moscow, for non-compliance with this requirement will be fined 4,000 rubles. You can work without a mask only if you have a separate office.

In this case, the mask must be worn correctly. This is what WHO recommends when and how to use masks - World Health Organization:

• Do not touch the mask with your hands after wearing it. If you do touch, wash your hands with soap or an antiseptic gel.
• As soon as the mask becomes wet from breathing, replace it with a new one. This usually happens every two hours.
• Remove the mask only by the mounts. Never touch the part that adjoins the face. After that, a disposable medical mask must be thrown away immediately, a reusable one must be sent to the wash.

6. Disinfect your hands

The main route of transmission of Q&A on coronaviruses (COVID-19) COVID-19 is airborne. But there is a risk of becoming infected by contact and household contact: first, touch the surface on which the coronavirus has settled, and then touch the mucous membrane of the nose, mouth or eyes.

Therefore, it is imperative to wash your hands regularly during a pandemic. Best of all - warm water and soap, at least 20 seconds. If you don't have access to water, you can clean your hands with an antiseptic or alcohol wipes. Make sure that there is at least 70% alcohol in these products.

7. Try not to touch common items

Most of the possible pathogenic agents (this applies not only to coronavirus, but also to other viruses and bacteria) live on them - doorknobs, handrails, stationary phone handsets, common keyboards, and so on.

If not otherwise, touch such items with gloves (this is required, for example, by the Moscow authorities), through paper napkins, or be sure to wash your hands after contact.

8. Regularly clean surfaces where the virus may be

Doorknobs, switches, landline telephone, desk, keyboard - wipe Cleaning and Disinfection for Households with alcohol wipes or household disinfectant spray several times a day. It is important that these products contain at least 70% alcohol.

9. Don't forget to disinfect your smartphone

On a mobile phone, as on any other surface, the coronavirus can linger. And since we put our smartphone to our face, the risk of infection increases.

Therefore, it is extremely important to regularly disinfect the gadget. Wipe it with a solution containing at least 70% alcohol. If you are afraid to damage the oleophobic coating, stick a protective glass or film on the screen.

10. Avoid shaking hands and friendly kisses

In a pandemic era, such contact is a surefire way to share the virus with others or pick it up yourself.

11. Refuse joint smoke breaks or lunches

Or spend them, strictly observing the distance: at least one and a half meters from one person to another.

However, smoking in any case should be minimized: nicotine has a bad effect on the lungs, which are the main target of the coronavirus. Don't overload them.

12. Be sure to wash your hands before you smoke or eat

During a smoke break or lunch, you can unconsciously touch the mucous membranes of the nose, mouth, eyes with contaminated hands. And this is one of the possible routes of infection.

13. Ventilate the room more often

There is no data yet on how long the coronavirus can stay in the air. However, WHO still advises Modes of transmission of virus causing COVID-19: implications for IPC precaution recommendations to open windows regularly.

Rospotrebnadzor recommends on measures for the prevention of new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) to ventilate work areas every two hours. This will help clear Guidance. Transmission characteristics and principles of infection prevention and control air pollution and reduce viral load.

14. Maintain normal indoor humidity

Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infection studies show that a humidity of 40-60% helps to keep the activity and viability of viruses (including SARS ‑ CoV ‑ 2) to a minimum. In addition, at the same humidity level, people feel better Indirect health effects of relative humidity in indoor environments. in total: efficiency and immunity increase.

15. Normalize Your Sleep Schedule

During self-isolation, you may be accustomed to going to bed deep after midnight and waking up closer to noon. But when you return to work, you need to rebuild again - so that you sleep at least 7-8 hours a day. It is important to maintain immunity. Lack of sleep: Can it make you sick? …

So do not forget to go to bed on time (a special one will help with this). You may find it difficult to fall asleep at first. To make the process easier:

• take a warm shower 1-2 hours before bedtime;
• ventilate the bedroom to lower the temperature in it;
• do not use gadgets at least an hour before bedtime;
• at about the same time, create a twilight in the apartment: instead of an overhead light, use a floor lamp or a table lamp;
• drink something warm before bed: a little chamomile tea or a drink based on lemon balm, fennel;
• Before going to bed, turn off all light sources and shade the windows as tightly as possible.

16. Watch your diet

Adequate nutrition is another important element of normal immunity. Snacking junk food at work is not worth it now.

Cook at home and take with you meals that contain all the necessary elements of a healthy diet: vegetables, fruits, meat, dairy products, cereals, whole grain bread.

17. Drink plenty of fluids

This is required Effect of hydration status on high-intensity rowing performance and immune function. to maintain immunity.

A sufficient volume is considered to be about 3.5 liters for men and 2.5 liters for women per day. This also includes the liquid you get from liquid meals and vegetables. Therefore, in order not to be mistaken, watch your well-being.

Doctors identify two key features of Water: How much should you drink every day? that you have enough fluids: you are not thirsty, and your urine is colorless or light yellow.

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