Wash your hands frequently with soap and water, use hand sanitiser if soap and water not available. Try not to touch your face.
Clean surfaces and door knobs regularly with a 1:10 bleach solution or disinfectant.
Wear a homemade cloth mask if you have to go out. If everyone wears a mask, this will help to decrease transmission. You can be asymptomatic and still transmit the virus, but if you are wearing a mask this transmission will be reduced. So we all help each other if we wear masks. There are many Youtube videos on how to make masks.
These masks are not 100% effective on protecting you from the virus, but if we all wear a mask they can help decrease transmission.
I would encourage all who can sew to start making masks for friends and family.
If you have cold symptoms, stay home and use over the counter cold medications.
If you have a cough, fever and shortness of breath, call the COVID hotline:
242-376-9350 8am- 8pm, 376-9387 8pm-8am, 242-502-7382 24 hrs.
Most people will recover from COVID-19, so try not to stress. Take precautions, protect your elderly family members by keeping your social distance.
Please continue to listen to reputable news items. Before you forward breaking news, please check that it is accurate. There is a lot of fake news out there.
Take a break from social media if it's making you feel anxious.
Enjoy the time at home with your family, catch up on reading, take an online course, play board games, call your friends, exercise, meditate, start a gratitude journal.
Eat healthy. Eat lots of veggies. Cut down on sugar and starchy foods.
Get enough sleep to keep up your immunity- 7 hours at least
Stay home, stay safe everyone!