Like all other respiratory infections, you can prevent infection by avoiding close contact with other people, paying attention to hand hygiene and covering your mouth and nose (by use of a face mask and the like). By protecting yourself from being infected, you will also protect other people you live with or you need to work closely with.

Hygiene: The importance of hand washing

An important weaknesses of the coronavirus is that, by its nature, it is easily destroyed. Each virus fragment consists of a small set of genes and this set of genes is surrounded by fat molecules. Fat molecules can be easily destroyed by soap, thanks to which 20 seconds of hand washing protects you much more than you may think.

Why should we wear a mask?

Facial masks serve two main purposes: first, they protect the user from infectious virus particles, and secondly, they protect other people around you against potential infectious particles that can be transmitted from you. Although they are not as protective as medical masks, covers, scarves, drapes, pieces of clothes and bandanas made at home are also significantly effective in the absence of medical masks. It is projected that when 80% of the entire population wear masks, the spread rate of the coronavirus will be halved. Since we do not know exactly who carries the virus, wearing masks is the most important solution against the spread of the disease.