Country life today: how to protect your home from coronavirus

Official data, opinions of FORUMHOUSE participants, rules of outdoor recreation

In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, it is important not to let fear defeat common sense and organize your life in such a way as not to leave a chance for the virus, not only in the external environment, but also at home. This article explains how to protect your home from 2019-nCoV.

What is coronavirus

By official data, as of March 25, 658 cases of infection with 2019-nCoV were confirmed in Russia - a new strain of coronavirus that was identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan. By information of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 2019-nCoV is the causative agent of ARVI, in which severe intoxication of the body, problems with the respiratory and digestive systems are noted. The virus is transmitted by airborne droplets and contact. In order not to get infected, the Ministry of Health recommends refraining from public events, canceling trips to other countries, wearing medical masks, washing hands as often as possible and do not contact people who have symptoms of infection (the main symptoms are fever, cough, shortness of breath, feeling of tightness in the chest).

A source of danger in an apartment building

An apartment in a multi-storey building from the point of view of the possibility of getting infected with 2019-nCoV is more dangerous than an individual house. how reports Tape. ru with reference to the head of the special commission of the State Committee on Health of the People's Republic of China Zhong Nanshan, the most dangerous place in a high-rise building is an elevator. Even if you ride in it alone, you can get infected. The virus can live for several days outside the human body. Therefore, the source of infection can be, for example, the elevator button.

Many people recommend wearing rubber or medical gloves during a pandemic. But WHO experts don't think it's a good idea. A person will be better protected from COVID 19 if they do not wear protective gloves and just wash their hands. The causative agent of the infection can be on the gloves, and the person can touch them to the face.

How to protect your home

It seems that there is no danger outside the city, away from the bustle of the city.

Serg177

FORUMHOUSE member

The schools were closed, I left with my daughter to the country.

But in suburban housing now special precautions are needed. "Parliamentary Gazette" with a link to the portal "Fenghuangwan" tells about what Chinese scientists recommend to do during a pandemic to protect their home. Basically, these recommendations boil down to frequent airing and regular wet cleaning.

According to Zhou Xiaomei, head of the Yunnan Province Epidemic Response Center, even a simple wet cleaning, which we do in everyday life, will significantly reduce the risk of entry into the home coronavirus.

When cleaning, special attention should be paid to the objects that we touch every day, especially doorknobs, as well as tables and chairs.

If any strangers must come into the house, before they come, you need to clean it with a chlorine-containing solution or any disinfectant based on 75 percent alcohol. Cleaning will have to be done immediately after the visitors leave, in any case, tables, chairs and doorknobs will be cleaned.

For effective prevention, it is imperative to ventilate the house twice a day, each time for at least half an hour. And, of course, wash your hands - with soap and running water. WHO recommends soaping your hands for at least 20 seconds.

But to process clothes and shoes after each return home, according to Zhou Xiaomei, is not required at all.

Doctor Oleg Komarovsky also does not get tired of repeating about the importance of airing to ensure air exchange, and wet cleaning “everything that can be mine, mine and mine!”. According to him, walks in the fresh air are very good for the prevention of infection, and here the owners of suburban areas can only be envied - we can ventilate the lungs even in self-isolation, without leaving gate.

Oleg Komarovsky

Doctor leading medical programs

Minimize communication with neighbors, go for walks in the fresh air and wash your hands.

Ildus72

FORUMHOUSE member

Your own precautions won't hurt. There is nothing to shy away from anywhere. I strongly recommended my son to forget about nightclubs for now. Today he insisted on canceling a planned school trip to a neighboring town.

Another point that is important for residents of the countryside is contact with animals. WHO recommends wash your hands every time they touch a cat, dog or other pet. Not a single case of human coronavirus infection from pets has been identified, but you can catch it from them salmonella or E.coli, so you just need to follow the usual hygiene rules that we adhere to in everyday life. But touching wild animals and animals that are sold in the poultry markets is strictly prohibited.

Be careful with kebabs!

In many regions of Russia it is early spring this year, and people traditionally open the barbecue season. WHO has specific recommendations for cooking meat. If it is normal meat, not from a deceased animal, it can be eaten as before. But it is necessary:

• use different cutting boards for meat and other products;
• wash hands after handling meat and ready to tackle other foods;
• and most importantly - "subject products to thorough heat treatment." The time has come when meat and other food is better overcooked than undercooked.

conclusions

If you follow these simple precautions, you can reduce your risk of contracting the virus dramatically. Here is a list of phone numbers where you can get help in an emergency:

• ambulance phone: 03, 103 (for calls from a mobile phone);
• Rospotrebnadzor hotline: 8-800-555-49-43;
• Rostrud hotline: 8-800-707-88-41;
• hotline of the Moscow Department of Health: +7 (495) 870-45-09.

Users of our portal do not lose their presence of mind and even in this situation are looking for positive moments - for a long time could we afford to bake a pie that takes five hours to make and not eat it on the run Hot Dog?

Ildus72

FORUMHOUSE member

The planet drives us home, so that we put things in order in them: starting with our room and continuing with our thoughts.

At FORUMHOUSE you can join discussing the coronavirus. We also have a section dedicated to home ecology. For those who have isolated themselves, we recommend reading our best themesto get out of the home seclusion ready for the new building season. If in the new season you take a course towards maximum self-sufficiency in food, we suggest watching our video on how a recent urban woman breeds chickens - decorative and ordinary.