Time for action and calm to fight this disease. Let adhere strictly to the following to protect ourselves, protect our family and protect the community at large. There is hope if we do all the below. Thank you.
Protect yourself first by doing the following;
1.Wash your hands frequently with soap under running water.
2. Avoid hand shake, and close contact with others but maintain social distance at least 2m away (arm stretched away).
3. Use alcohol-based hand sanitizers (60% alcohol and above) frequently where water and soap is unavailable. Discourage from the use of ‘Akpeteshie’ because the alcohol content is less than 60% to kill the invisible germs on our hands.
4. Sanitise your doors, electrical gadgets such as mobile phones, tablets, computers, remotes, and others frequently with antiseptic solution such as detol, 60% or above alcohol-based sanitisers and others.
5. Avoid public gatherings or overcrowded areas.
6. Take more fruits especially oranges or vitamin c tablet 100mg three times a day or dissolvable vitamin c tablet 1000mg daily to boost your immune system.
7. Take more vegetables such as lettuce, ‘Kotomire’, ‘Ayoyo’, ‘Elefe’, green paper, carrot, Carlic and others to build your immune system.
8. Take adequate fluids such as water, soup, beverages and others to hydrate you.
9. Rest adequately if possible to build your immune system.
10. Engage in regular exercise to build the immune system.
11. Avoid contact with people who have traveled recently, experiencing fever, cough, sneezing, runny nose and others.
Protect your family by doing the following;
1. Cover your nostril or mouth when coughing or sneezing with disposable tissue and discard immediately into bin, and wash hands with soap under running water or apply alcohol-based hand sanitizers (60% and above alcohol).
2. Maintain Social distance at least 2m (arm stretched away) away from others.
3. Self-isolate yourself from your family if you feel unwell, and experience symptoms such as cough, sneezing, runny nose, fever( above 37.2 degrees Celsius), and call 0509497700/0558439868 for immediate medical attention.
4. If you have travel recently, self-quarantine yourself for 14days upon arrival to protect your family.
5. Self-quarantine yourself for 14days if you think you have been exposed to someone coughing or sneezing.
Protect the community by adhering to the following;
1. Self-isolate yourself from the public if you feel unwell, and experiencing fever, coughing or sneezing for 14days, and seek medical attention by calling the contact in point 3 under protect your family.
2. Apply point 1,2,3 and 4 under protect your family to prevent community transmission if you’re confirmed to have Covid-19.
Credits; 1.https//www.who.int
2. https//www.ghanahealthservice.org/covid19
3. https//www.cdc.gov
Kwasi Omaro 