Guidelines for the Protection of Persons from New Coronavirus

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This guide is designed to guide the protection of people at different risk of new coronavirus infection. This guide applies to ordinary home people, travel personnel, home isolation personnel, specific industry personnel.

Ordinary home people

  • 1. To minimize activities outside the home. Reduce visiting relatives and friends and dinner, try to rest at home. Reduced to crowded public places activities, especially relatively closed places with poor airflows, such as public baths, hot springs, cinemas, Internet cafes, KTV, shopping malls, stations, airports, docks, and exhibition halls.
  • 2. Do a good job of personal protection and hand hygiene. Home thermometer, mask, household disinfection supplies, and other items. No contact with suspected or confirmed patients and the appearance of intact, no smell or dirty mask, can be placed in the room ventilation dry place for the next use. The mask which needs to discard, according to the requirements of domestic waste classification to deal with it. Keep hands clean at all times, return from public places, hand cover after cough, before and after meals, wash hands with hand sanitizer or soap with flowing water, or use wash-free hand sanitizer. When not sure whether the hand is clean or not, avoid touching the mouth, nose, and eyes with the hand. Cover your mouth and nose with your elbow when sneezing or coughing.
  • 3. Maintain good living habits. Room neat, open windows frequently, often ventilation, regular disinfection. A balanced diet, balanced nutrition, moderate exercise, rest well. No spitting, mouth and nose secretions wrapped with tissue paper, discarded in a covered bin.
  • 4. Take the initiative to do a good job in monitoring the health of individuals and family members, and take the initiative to measure body temperature when consciously feverish. If there is a child in the home, touch the child’s forehead in the morning and night, if there is a fever to measure its temperature.
  • 5. If suspicious symptoms such as fever, cough, sore throat, chest tightness, dyspnea, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, conjunctivitis, and muscle soreness occur, they should be promptly visited by medical institutions according to their condition.

Travel personnel

  • 1. Daily life and work travel personnel go out to supermarkets, restaurants, and other public places and take public transport, need to wear masks to minimize close contact with others. A mask is not required when the risk of infection is low, such as being alone, driving by only yourself, or walking alone in the park(If no other person around).
  • 2. When suspicious symptoms arise, they should wear masks when going to medical institutions, advice to use medical-surgical masks. To avoid transportation such as subway, bus, etc. and to avoid traveling to crowded places. They should tell the medical staff their travel and residence history in the disease-prone areas and who they have contacted, cooperate with medical and health institutions to carry out relevant investigations.
  •  3. Long-distance travel personnel needs to know in advance whether the destination is an epidemic area. If you have to go to a disease-prone area, you should be equipped with a mask, portable wash-free hand sanitizer, thermometer, and other necessary items in advance. During travel, minimize close contact with others and wear KN95/N95 and above particulate protective masks in crowded public transportation places when traveling. The mask should be replaced in time when it is deformed, wet, or soiled, resulting in a lower protective effect. When going to epidemic areas properly, they need to keep the information on public transport bills for inquiry. Upon return from the area where the disease is endemic, registration and medical observation shall be made in the residents’ committee and the villagers’ committee of the community. Medical observation always is a period of 14 days after leaving the endemic area. During the medical observation, temperature, signs, and other health monitoring, try to live alone or live in a well-ventilated single room, reduce close contact with the family.

Home isolation personnel

  • 1. For those in close contact with pneumonia cases of new coronavirus infection, medical observation at home isolation is adopted. The medical observation period is 14 days after the last contact with the case of an infected person without effective protection. Home isolation personnel should live relatively independently, minimize contact with co-residents, do a good job of cleaning and disinfection of the medical observation area, avoid cross-infection. Do not go out during the observation period, if must go out, only after the approval of medical observation management, and wear medical surgical masks to avoid going to crowded places.
  • 2. At least daily twice temperature tests, no visits. Minimize close contact with family members and do not share any items that may cause indirect contact with the infection, including toothbrushes, cigarettes, cutlery, food, beverages, towels, clothing, bedding, etc.
  •  3. When others enter the living space of the isolated persons at home, they shall wear KN95/N95 or above particulate protective masks and do not touch or adjust the masks during the period. Try to avoid direct contact with home isolation personnel. If any direct contact, they should do a good job of cleaning and disinfection in time.

Specific industry personnel

1. For personnel of the Department of Public Transport,

  • Taxi drivers, public service personnel, armed police, traffic police, security personnel, media reporters, express delivery personnel, and other industry personnel, because of the large number of daily contact personnel, there is a risk of infection, their companies should be equipped them with disposable medical masks or medical-surgical masks or those standard above particulate protective masks, as well as a hand disinfectant, disinfectant paper towels, thermometers, and other items, and do a good job of daily cleaning and disinfection of the working environment.
  • They should do a good job of personal protection during the working period, standardized wearing masks on duty. The mask, which is deformed, wet, or soiled, should be replaced when the protective effect is reduced. Pay attention to keep hands clean, wash hands with hand sanitizer or soap flowing water, or use wash-free hand sanitizer. Check body temperature at least 2 times a day. In the event of suspicious symptoms (such as fever, cough, sore throat, chest tightness, dyspnea, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, conjunctivitis, muscle soreness, etc.), work should be stopped immediately, isolated at home according to the condition.

2. To the isolation ward staff, medical observation place staff, suspected and confirmed cases of transport personnel

  • For those people, recommended wearing overalls, disposable working cap, disposable gloves, medical disposable protective clothing, the medical respirator or power supply air filter respirator, protective face screen, or goggles, work shoes, or boots, waterproof boots set, etc.

3. For epidemiological investigators,

  • When they are doing close contact investigations, they should wear disposable work caps, medical-surgical masks, work clothes, and disposable gloves and maintain a distance of more than one meter from the subject under investigation. For the investigation of suspected and confirmed cases, it is recommended to wear work clothes, disposable work caps, disposable gloves, disposable medical protective clothing, particulate matter protective masks or medical protective masks, protective face screens or goggles, and work shoes or rubber boots, waterproof boots, etc., suspected and confirmed cases may also be considered by telephone or video ways of investigation.

4. For specimen collectors and biosafety laboratory workers,

  • It is recommended to wear work clothes, disposable work caps, double-layer gloves, medical disposable protective clothing, KN95/N95, and above particulate matter protective masks or medical protective masks or power supply air filter respirators, protective face screens, work shoes or rubber boots, waterproof boot covers. Wear a waterproof apron or waterproof isolation coat if necessary.

5. For environmental cleaning and disinfection personnel and Cadaver handling personnel

  • It is recommended to wear work clothes, disposable work caps and disposable gloves and long-sleeved thickened rubber gloves, medical disposable protective clothing, particulate matter protective masks or medical protective masks for KN95/N95 and above, work shoes or rubber boots, waterproof boot covers, waterproof aprons or waterproof isolation clothing, etc. Environmental cleaning and disinfection personnel using power supply air filter respirator, according to the type of disinfectant to select a combination of dust poison filter box or poison tank, to do a good job of disinfectant and other chemicals protection.

This article is translated from me from the Chinese CDC. If anything wrong, please kindly leave us a message, and if you think it is useful, welcome to promote to your friend.

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