How to Protect Yourself and Others from Coronavirus

Coronavirus cases are continuing to spread day-by-day. Its effect in society is massive.

To protect yourself and others from COVID-19 while at home, in office, or while travelling you can follow these simple protocols.

Washing Hands More Often

Clean your hands with alcohol-based hand-sanitizer or soap before eating, touching your face, and preparing food. It is also important after sneezing and coughing, returning to home from outside, and touching animals or pets.

This will kill invisible bacteria and viruses that may be on your hands.

 

Avoiding Touching Your Face Frequently

Make sure you avoid touching your face frequently. This disease can make its way from your hands to your nose, eyes, and mouth. So, it is better to take precautions beforehand.

 

Maintaining Safe Distance with Others

According to Mayo Clinic, you should maintain at least 2 metres or 6 feet distance from others while talking to them or standing near them at home or outside. It is mainly important for people having a poor immune system.

 

Staying at Home if you are Sick

If you are not well you should stay indoors and avoid going to any crowded places. Do all the pending tasks later. Health is wealth, remember!

In this way you can help minimize the spreading of the disease in your surroundings.

 

Maintaining Good Hygiene where You Stay

Clean and disinfect the surroundings where you stay. Clean the dirty surfaces, tables, light switches, phones, keyboards, sinks, doorknobs, and all the other parts of the home you and your family come into contact daily.

 

Wearing Mask When around Others

Cover your mouth and nose with a clean piece of cloth or a mask especially before travelling or going outside for grocery shopping.

Always maintain the measures of social distancing in every way possible to protect yourself from COVID-19.

 

Foods that can Help Protect from Coronavirus

According to nutritionist Lee Holmes, antioxidant-rich foods like onions, berries, garlic, ginger, turmeric, mushrooms, pumpkins, carrots, eggs and oysters are some of the foods that help boost our immunity.

Having these Vitamin C, B and E containing foods will surely keep the disease at bay.

 

Working from Home

Working from home is another best possible way to have money in this corona-crisis. This will also ensure you stay away from the grab of COVID-19.

 

Lockdown is effective in various parts of the globe. To be safe you should follow these guidelines even after the lockdown in your country. You can also follow my tips given on boosting your immune system naturally using the description given shorturl.at/FPQU3

Authored by Suparna Ganguly