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COVID-19
CORONAVIRUS
#BREAKCORONA
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
TO BEAT IT
IN THIS BOOK YOU WILL FIND : Covid 19 : About Signs & An Overview Coronavirus Symptoms Important Spread of Telephone Coronavirus Numbers Corporate Precautions Myths about Advisory to take Coronavirus
OVERVIEW
The global number of
confirmed Coronavirus COVID-19 in India
(COVID-19) cases has edged Total number of COVID-19
toward a million while death positive cases rise to 2088 in
toll has neared 50,000 as the India (including 1764 active
cases, 157 cured / discharged /
outbreak continues to hit the migrated people and 56
world. deaths), according to the
As per WHO, currently, there is latest tally published by the
Union Ministry of Health and
no vaccine or specific Family Welfare this morning
treatment for COVID-19, but (April 4, 2020). Among the 27
supportive care can help most states and Union Territories
patients recover. Precautionary having Coronavirus patients,
Maharashtra has the highest
measures include regular tally of positive cases at 338,
hand-hygiene practices with an followed by Kerala at 241.
alcohol-based rub or soap and India has been under a 21-day
water and strictly practising lockdown in a bid to prevent
the spread of COVID-19
social distancing. infection.
ABOUT CORONAVIRUS COVID-19, is a new strain of
(COVID-19) coronavirus that has not been
previously identified in humans.
COVID-19 is the name of a
disease caused by the newly Why is it called COVID-19?
discovered Coronavirus, called Covid-19 (Coronavirus
novel coronavirus (nCoV), first disease-19) is the official name
identified in Wuhan, China, given to the novel coronavirus
in December 2019. disease under commonly agreed
Coronaviruses are a large family guidelines between WHO, the
of viruses, named for the World Organization for Animal
crown-like spikes on their Health, and the Food and
surface. Notorious for mutating Agricultural Organization of the
quickly and acquiring new UN. It was earlier being called
qualities, these viruses are 2019-nCoV.
highly contagious and can
spread from human to human.
Coronaviruses can cause
diseases ranging from the
common cold to more severe
diseases like Middle East
Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
and Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS. The novel
Coronavirus, now renamed as
SIGNS & SYMPTOMS
The following symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure.
Flu like
symptoms
Fever
Cough
Shortness
of breath
Fatigue
Gastrointestinal
symptoms like
diarrhoea
SIGNS & SYMPTOMS
Emergency warning signs include:
Trouble
breathing
Persistent pain
or pressure in
the chest
Confusion
Blue lips or face
Excessive
DrowsinessCOVID-19 SPREAD • People may also get infected
(TRANSMISSION) if they breathe in droplets
from an infected person who
• The disease can spread from
coughs out or exhales
person to person through
droplets. This is why it is
small droplets from the nose
important to stay more than
or mouth when an infected
6- feet away from a person
person coughs or exhales.
who is sick.
These droplets land on
objects and surfaces around
the person.
• People can also catch
COVID-19 by touching these
objects or surfaces, then
touching their eyes, nose or The airborne route of
mouth. transmission is under
investigation. Of late,
this has acquired a
‘superspreader’ status,
wherein cases have
been implicated
through asymptomatic
transmission or in
some where the mode
of transmission is
unexplainable.MYTHS AROUND COVID-19
1. Will I die if I get 2. Can the COVID-19 3. Can eating meat,
Coronavirus? virus be passed on poultry products like
No. Mortality rate through food? chicken or eggs cause
ranges between 2-3% No. Currently, there Coronavirus?
only. Almost 80% of is no evidence yet No. Currently, there is
people have mild that suggests that no evidence yet
symptoms and COVID-19 virus be suggesting spread of
recover in 2 weeks. passed on through coronavirus directly
Risk of death is food. through poultry
higher only in older products. But, it is
people (above an age always good option to
of 60 years) and eat only properly
people with cooked meat.
pre-existing health
conditions
4. Can eating garlic 5. I will not get the • Wear a mask if you
prevent infection virus as long as I are coughing or
with the wear a mask. Is this sneezing.
coronavirus? true? • Masks are effective
No. There’s no Not necessarily. only when used in
science-backed While wearing a combination with
evidence that proves mask in a crowded frequent hand -
its ability to protect place is advisable, cleaning with alcohol
against the you only need to - based hand rub, or
coronavirus. wear a mask if you soap and water.
are taking care of a • If you wear a mask,
person with the then you must know
suspected COVID-19 how to use it and
infection if you are dispose of it
healthy. properly.MYTHS AROUND COVID-19
6. Can I catch the virus 7. Can foods like 8. Can high temperature,
through my pets? garlic help prevent humidity affect
No. There is no the spread of the transmission rate of
evidence to support virus? COVID-19?
that this virus can be No. Garlic has No. This is a myth. The
transmitted through many health WHO has observed
domestic pets benefits, and more that this infection can
people should be be transmitted in any
eating it. No food and all areas
out there is regardless of climate.
guaranteed to
prevent you from
contracting the
virus. It is not
backed up by any
medical studies.
9. Can taking a hot 10. Can holding the
bath prevent breath for 10
infection? seconds act as
No. This is also a test for detecting
myth. WHO says that COVID-19?
the normal body No. Experts say
temperature remains that a person
stable between infected with the
36.5°C - 37°C COVID-19 virus
despite the can also hold
temperature. his/her breath for
longer than 10
seconds. On the
contrary, the
elderly will not be
able to
accomplish this
task but it does
not in any way
mean that they are
infected.PRECAUTIONS
Systems (crowded busses, metro
trains, etc.)
• If you are not well, seek
INDIVIDUAL CARE immediate medical attention
• Wash your hand regularly with • If you have fever, cough, or
plenty of soap and water. difficulty breathing, stay indoors.
• Keep an alcohol-based sanitizer Call the nearest health centre or
ready for times when soap and call 011-23978046 and follow
water are not available their advice.
• Do not touch your eyes, mouth or • If you have come in contact with
nose with unclean hands a confirmed case or a suspect
• Keep at least 1-meter distance case, follow the home quarantine
from anyone coughing or period is for 14 days
sneezing. • During the quarantine period,
• Follow no-touch greeting. Prefer strictly follow the hand hygiene
“Namaste” or hand-waving over rules and avoid sharing
handshake household items within the
family members utensils, clothes
towels etc
COMMUNITY CARE
• Sneeze or cough in the inner side SURFACE CONTACT CARE
of your elbow and not into your
hands. Or, use a tissue and throw • Morning milk bags
it away immediately. • Elevator buttons
• Do not travel or visit crowded • Doorbells
places if you are sick • Newspapers
• Do wear a mask if you are sick • Car door after wash
and also if you are taking care of • Garbage can exchange with
someone with the symptoms housekeeping staff (also their
• Practice Social Distancing, which ingress into housing society, and
means avoid Group & Social movement from house to house)
Gatherings, Theatre outings, • Raw vegetable and fruits
Crowded Retail Stores, Gyms, purchased
Malls, Mass Transport • Shop counters• Office pantry, lunchroom,
washroom, and door handles
• Garden seats
• Play area swings, etc. (though for DOMESTIC
an unknown reason, young
children thankfully are less • Use wet wipes for cleaning
affected) around your seats
• Maids touching multiple surfaces • Do not touch your eyes, nose or
at home mouth
• All doorknobs. • Cough or sneeze inside the elbow
• Packets of Delivery boys - or use tissues
Amazon, Flipkart, Swiggy, etc. • Clean your hands with soap and
• Any shopping packets water or hand sanitizer
• Currency notes and coins • Sanitize your hands after
• Cabs (Uber, Ola Auto), etc. touching railings, trolleys, poles,
• Bus and train handles handgrips etc.
• Shoes, etc., which may step on • Follow the protocols as advised
spit by respective airport authorities
• If travelling by air, then multiple
points from departing terminal to
the arrival terminal
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
• Cough or sneeze inside the elbow
or use tissues
TRAVEL ADVISORY • Wash your hands often, with soap
INTERNATIONAL and water, for at least 20 seconds.
• All the International and domestic This is the most critical way to
flights have been banned amid a control infections, and it's first
21-day nation-wide lockdown among the
announced by the Government of guidelines for preventing the
India to prevent the COVID-19 due spread of disease on commercial
to a nation-wide 21-day lockdown aircraft
announced by the Government of • Sanitize your hands after touching
India. railings, trolleys, poles, handgrips
etc.
• Maintain 3ft distance with anyone
who is coughing or sneezing
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose
and mouth with unwashed handsSOCIAL DISTANCING AVOID
• Group Gatherings
• Sleep overs SAFE TO DO
• Play Dates
• Concerts • Take a walk
• Theatre outings • Go for a Hike
• Athletic Events • Yard work
• Crowded Retail Stores • Play in your Yard
• Malls • Cleaning out a Closet
• Workouts and Gyms • Read a Good Book
• Visitors in your house • Listen to Music
• Non-essential workers in your • Cook a meal
house • Family Game night
• Mass Transmit Systems • Go for a Drive
• Group Video Chats
• Stream a favorite show
• Check on Friends
• Check on Elderly Neighbor
USE CAUTION
• Visit a local Restaurant
• Visit Grocery Store
• Get Take out
• Pick up Medications
• Play tennis in a Park
• Visiting the Library
• Church Services
• TravellingCorporate Advisory
Follow the 3A – Augment, Apprise and Assist – MODEL to
prevent COVID at workplace
Augment Workplace Hygiene Be Supportive of Sick
Encourage Individual Hygiene At Employees
Workplace • Monitor employee health when at
• Provide instructions and work – empathize and encourage
reminders at prominent places in health checks in case employee
the work area for practising “good is not feeling well
hygiene practices.” • Leverage in house clinical
• Provide sanitization tools – hand strength for information
sanitizers at common areas, dissemination
sanitized/ disposable tissues at • Provide sick leaves for
workplaces, additional hand quarantined cases
washes in hand washes • Have a mechanism to make
employees on leave be a part of
the system when on leave via
regular updates
• Adopt hygiene guidelines as part
Encourage Workplace Hygiene of the regular work charter
Practices • Replace handshake with
Namaste
• Have an internal “hygiene • Adapt the workplace sick leave
champion” who encourages good policy as per the situation, relax
hygiene practices working hours
• Provide Instructions at work • Consider extending support to
desks as desktop backgrounds, the family of the employees, if
table tops etc. sick, e.g: unpaid sick leaves for
• Review and encourage desk affected family members
cleaning practices, - swiping
surfaces with alcohol swabs
• Increase washroom cleaning
cycles if necessary
• Maintain cough etiquettesAPPRISE THE WORKFORCE Identify Communication Channels and Structure Ensure that all employees have access to real-time communication on COVID 19, including updates on internal policies Make a senior resource responsible for all communication and disseminate information via a single source Ensure the medium chosen to share information is accessible to all resources across the hierarchy, display the information in prominent places. Use multiple channels of information Correct Information at Correct Educate Time • Distribute / Display FAQs, Myths • Keep track of new developments and Facts, Helpline Numbers, from WHO, Govt. of India, MoHFW Symptoms and prevention at • Send information as and when it prominent places comes from verified sources • Get a medical professional to talk • No room for rumours policy to the employees to instil • Try setting up a special internal confidence and clarify their helpline number to help doubts employees for addressing their • Extend the scope of information • Queries to employees family
ASSIST THE WORKFORCE Support Employees And Their Strengthen And Learn From Families Different Companies In The • Empathize with employees who Same are sick or are on quarantine by • Learn, Reach out and relaxing work norms for them communicate within and across • Relax work norms by means of industries for practices adapted work reallocation, work from by them to handle such home policies, relaxed working situations hours, minimizing large gatherings and meetings etc Be Part Of The Bigger Picture • Create and implement interim • Train leadership on maintaining policies for essential but high employee engagement and vulnerable population like elderly empathy and pregnant women • Assist and “adopt” impacted • Encourage them to work from areas and people in the nearby home unless work critical community • Keep a tab on their health and encourage health checks if required • Provide separate transport facilities if the need be • Consider unpaid family care leave to employees
HOME QUARANTINE
Home quarantine is applicable to all such contacts of a suspect or
confirmed case of COVID-19. A Contact may be defined as follows:
• A person living in the same household as a COVID-19 case;
• A person having had direct physical contact with a COVID-19 case
• A person who was in a closed environment or had face to face contact
with a COVID-19 case at a distance of within1metre including air travel;
The home quarantine
period is for 14 days
from contact with a
confirmed case or
earlier if a suspect case
(of whom the index
person is a contact)
turns out negative on
laboratory testing• Avoid shaking the soiled linen
or direct contact with skin
• Use disposable gloves when
cleaning the surfaces or
Instructions for contacts handling soiled linen
(people) being home • Wash hands after removing
quarantined gloves
• Needs to stay away from elderly • Visitors should not be allowed
people, pregnant women, children • In case the person being
and persons with co-morbidities quarantined becomes
within the household. symptomatic, all his close
• Restrict his/her movement within contacts will be home
the house. quarantined (for 14 days) and
• Under no circumstances attend followed up for an additional
any social/religious gathering e.g. 14days or till the report of such
wedding, condolences, etc case turns out negative on lab
• Follow strict hand hygiene rules testing
• Avoid sharing household items
within the family members
utensils, clothes towels etc
• Use surgical masks at all times.
Do not reuse masks, change
masks every 6-8 hours. Dispose
off masks separately and treat Environmental sanitation
them as biohazards
• Clean and disinfect frequently
• If symptoms appear immediately
touched surfaces in the
inform the nearest health center
quarantined person’s room (e.g.
or call 011-23978046.
bed frames, tables etc.) daily
with 1%Sodium Hypochlorite
Solution.
• Clean and disinfect toilet
surfaces daily with regular
household bleach
Instructions for the family
solution/phenolic disinfectants
members of persons being
• Clean the clothes and other
home quarantined
linen used by the person
• Only an assigned family member separately using common
should be tasked with taking care household detergent and dry
of the such personHEALTH WORKERS • The staff to follow hand – hygiene guidelines at all times. • The staff who is likely to come in contact with such a patient, should be wearing N 95/three ply surgical mask at all times. • The patient should be kept at least 6 feet (or two arm’s length away). • A three-ply surgical mask should be offered to the patients and relatives. • The patient and relatives should be requested to wear the mask immediately. • For patients presenting with a history of travel to China, Korea, Japan, Iran and Italy (the list shall expand based on GOI directives), the patient should be taken to a confined area for detailed history and examination. Such an area (away from patient care areas) needs to be identified immediately. • Instead of circulating papers, all communication including details of the patient (Name, Age, Mobile Number, Address) should be sent by SMS/ WhatsApp to the hospital nodal officer. • The patient should be transferred to the Government designated facility in patient’s own vehicle / Govt. designated ambulances. • All surfaces need to be cleaned by hypochlorite every shift. • The masks should be disposed properly as per standard State guidelines and regulations. In case of a telephonic conversation with a suspect patient requesting directions: • Such patients should be directed to designated State Nodal Hospital • Request the patient not to travel by public transport • Provide the helpline number at designated Nodal Hospital
HELPLINE
If symptoms appear immediately inform the nearest health center or
call 011-23978046 / 1075 / 1800 112 545
Helpline Numbers of States & Union Territories (UTs)
S. No Name of the State Helpline Nos.
1 Andhra Pradesh 0866-2410978
2 Arunachal Pradesh 9536055743
3 Assam 6913347770
4 Bihar 104
5 Chhattisgarh 077122-35091
6 Goa 104
7 Gujarat 104
8 Haryana 8558893911
9 Himachal Pradesh 104
10 Jharkhand 104
11 Karnataka 104
12 Kerala 0471-2552056
13 Madhya Pradesh 0755-2527177
14 Maharashtra 020-26127394
15 Manipur 3852411668
16 Meghalaya 9366090748
17 Mizoram 102
18 Nagaland 7005539653
19 Odisha 9439994859
20 Punjab 104
21 Rajasthan 0141-2225624
22 Sikkim 104
23 Tamil Nadu 044-29510500
24 Telangana 104
25 Tripura 0381-2315879
26 Uttarakhand 104
27 Uttar Pradesh 18001805145
28 West Bengal 3323412600S. No Name of Union Territory (UT) Helpline Nos.
1 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 03192-232102
2 Chandigarh 9779558282
3 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and
Daman & Diu 104
4 Delhi 011-22307145
5 Jammu & Kashmir 1912520982, 0194-2440283
6 Ladakh 1982256462
7 Lakshadweep 4896263742
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