To prevent infection and to slow transmission of COVID-19, do the following:

• Wash your hands regularly with soap and water, or clean them with alcohol-based hand rub.

• Maintain at least 1 metre distance between you and people coughing or sneezing.

• Avoid touching your face.

• Cover your mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing.

• Stay home if you feel unwell.

• Refrain from smoking and other activities that weaken the lungs.

• Practice physical distancing by avoiding unnecessary travel and staying away from large groups of people.

To practice social or physical distancing, stay at least 6 feet (about 2 arm lengths) from other people who are not from your household in both indoor and outdoor spaces.

Social distancing should be practiced in combination with other everyday preventive actions to reduce the spread of COVID-19, including wearing masks, avoiding touching your face with unwashed hands, and frequently washing your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.

• When you take off a mask, store it in a clean plastic bag, and every day either wash it if it’s a fabric mask, or dispose of a medical mask in a trash bin.

• Clean your hands before you put your mask on, as well as before and after you take it off, and after you touch it at any time.

Cough or sneeze in your bent elbow - not your hands!

Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth

Limit social gatherings and time spent in crowded places

Avoid close contact with someone who is sick

Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces

1.Place the elastic bands around your ears.

2.Extend the surgical up above the nose and down to the chin. 

3.Bend the metallic strip at the top of the mask over nose bridge. 

4.Avoid touching the surgical mask after putting it on. 

5.Discard used masks in the garbage and wash your hands.

1.Wet your hands with clean — preferably running — water.

2.Apply enough soap to cover all surfaces of your hands and wrists.

3.Lather and rub your hands together briskly and thoroughly. Make sure to scrub all surfaces of your hands, fingertips, fingernails, and wrists.

4.Scrub your hands and wrists for at least 20 seconds.

5.Rinse your hands and wrists under clean — preferably running — water.

6.Dry your hands and wrists with a clean towel, or let them air-dry.

7.Use a towel to turn off the faucet.

Eat fruits, vegetables, legumes (e.g. lentils, beans), nuts and whole grains (e.g. unprocessed maize, millet, oats, wheat, brown rice or starchy tubers or roots such as potato, yam, taro or cassava), and foods from animal sources (e.g. meat, fish, eggs and milk).

Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth

Limit social gatherings and time spent in crowded places

Avoid close contact with someone who is sick

Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces

A digital thermometer with a metal probe measures temperature either in the mouth (oral thermometer) or anus (rectal thermometer).