SOP FOR HOME

PREVENTING COVID 19
COVID-19 Disease - Cause and Prevention
What is COVID -19? How the virus infect? How to Protect / Prevent?
The disease caused by an infection
with SARS-CoV-2 is called COVID-19, CLOSE CONTACT RESPIRATORY HYGIENE
which stands for Corona Virus
Disease 1.Person to person contact
2019.
2. Commonly touched surface
SYMPTOMS
3. Hands, touching eyes, nose
and mouth frequently
Some common Symptoms that have
been specifically linked to COVID-19
includes - SOCIAL DISTANCING
RESPIRATION
a. Fever
b. Shortness of breath 1. Coughing
c. Having cough that gets more 2. Sneezing & Talking
severe over time

Other symptoms can include

a. Tiredness
b. Aches
c. Sore throat
Social Distancing And Its Importance
Social Distancing
Social Distancing means to reduce
social interaction between people
i.e. less contact between you and
other human being.
Importance What can I Do?
Social distancing is important a. If you are sick stay at home and
because COVID-19 is most likely maintain isolation.
to spread from person to person
through - b. Wash your hand frequently with
soap and water or alcohol based
a. Direct close contact with hand sanitizer.
infected person
b. Touching objects or
c. Cover your cough and sneeze
surfaces (such as door
with cloth or tissue paper and
handles or tables, lift
dispose carefully.
buttons etc.) contaminated
from cough or sneeze from
d. Avoid handshake, hugging while
infected person and then
meeting people.
touching your mouth, nose
or eyes.
e. Avoid crowded places and follow
So, the more space between you the guidelines.
and others, the harder it is for the
virus to spread
Self Health Assessment At Home

Self assessment is to make people responsible for identifying their health status by
themselves early at home and avoid any transmission of the disease to other people.
Q1. Have you travelled to any international or domestic Q5. Are you experiencing 2 or more of the following
destination after 1st March 2020? symptoms?
a. Muscle aches
Q2. Are you experiencing any of the following b. Fatigue
symptoms? c. Headache
a. Severe difficulty in breathing d. Sore throat
b. Severe chest pain e. Runny nose
c. Confusion
d. Lost consciousness Q6. Are you in close contact with a person who is sick with
new respiratory symptoms with International and
Q3. Are you experiencing any of the following Domestic travel history?
symptoms (or a combination of these symptoms)?
a. Fever
b. Cough If any of your Answer is YES or you are
c. Shortness of breath (even when you're not active) experiencing any of the symptom please isolate
yourself, take rest and consult doctor.
Q4. Has someone you are in close contact with tested
positive for COVID-19?
Ensuring Health And Safety After Reaching Home
Purpose: To ensure health and safety of employee as well as to keep their family members safe from the virus
Scope: All employees & family members.

Guidelines
1. Avoid touching common touch point such as gates bars, lift buttons, staircase rod bars etc.
2. Avoid touching any things and any members of your family.
3. Before touching anything, wash your hands with soap and water. Remove your cloths and leave them for at-
least 10 hours before you touch it again.
4. Dispose/ discard your face masks and gloves in a closed bin and clean your hands with soap or alcohol based hand
sanitizer.
5. If you are using washable mask, clean it properly with soap and water after use.
6. Avoid AC usage at home
How To Improve Your Immunity (Source- Ministry of AYUSH)
General Measures Ayurvedic Measures
1. Drink warm water
1. Take Chyavanprash 10gm (1tsf)
throughout the day.
in the morning. Diabetics should
take sugar free Chyavanprash.
2. Daily practice of Yogasana,
Pranayama and meditation
2. Drink herbal tea / decoction
for at least 30 min
(Kadha) made from Tulsi
(Basil), Dalchini (Cinnamon),
3. Spices like Haldi Kalimirch (Black pepper),
(Turmeric), Jeera (Cumin),
Shunthi (Dry Ginger) and
Dhaniya (Coriander) and
Munakka (Raisin) - once or
Lahsun (Garlic) are
twice a day. Add jaggery
recommended in cooking.
(natural sugar) and / or fresh
lemon juice to your taste, if
needed.
3. Golden Milk- Half tea spoon
Haldi (turmeric) powder in 150
ml hot milk - once or twice a
day.
Simple Ayurvedic
Procedures
1. Nasal application -
Apply sesame oil /
coconut oil or Ghee in
both the nostrils
(Pratimarsh Nasya) in
morning and evening.
2. Oil pulling therapy- Take
1 table spoon sesame or
coconut oil in mouth. Do
not drink, Swish in the
mouth for 2 to 3 minutes
and spit it off followed by
warm water rinse. This
can be done once or
twice a day
During dry cough / sore
throat
1. Steam inhalation with
fresh Pudina (Mint) leaves
or Ajwain (Caraway seeds)
can be practiced once in a
day.
2. Lavang (Clove) powder
mixed with natural sugar /
honey can be taken 2-3
times a day in case of
cough or throat irritation.
3. These measures generally
treat normal dry cough and
sore throat. However, it is
best to consult doctors if
these symptoms persist.
 Visit to Market…
 Download, install and update the Aarogya Setu® app. Ensure your mobile’s
Bluetooth® connection needs to be ‘ACTIVE’, especially as you step out of your home.
 Always wear a triple layer /N95/Surgical nose mask or use face cover when you go out of
your home.
 Wear dedicated plastic slippers for the market which can be sanitized with detergent
solution after use.
 Make a distance of minimum 6 feet from any person or shopkeeper in the market.
 Avoid touching anything unnecessarily outside your home.
 Avoid touching your face with your hand when you are outside your home.
 Keep a small pack of hand sanitizer (containing 70% alcohol) with you and always
sanitize your hands if you feel you touched anything suspicious in the market.
 Try to keep away the material from your body when carrying from market. It is better
to carry a plastic basket when going to the market. Put the material in basket and carry it
to your home.
 In case you need to visit ATM for money, first sanitize the keyboard of ATM and
Card after use, by hand sanitizer (containing 70% alcohol).
 Go to market only when it is urgent. Try to go once or twice in a week.
 Use online / digital mobile shopping apps as far as possible to get your supplies of
groceries & essentials.

Note: You do not need to wear a nose mask at your home unless
you have influenza like illness (ILI).
Payments at Market…
 If in any circumstances you take paper currency from market then keep it in your hand until your home and disinfect
it using cloth iron. Iron the currency on both sides.

 Person visited the market will not touch the iron, he will put the currency note on surface and other family member
will iron.

 Disinfect the currency coins with 70% alcohol based sanitizer or soap and water.

 Wash your hands with soap and water after currency disinfection.

 Disinfect your mobile phone using permissible agents and tissue wipes.

 Try to make digital payment using G-Pay®

/Paytm® App, Bhim® App or your Banking App

 Avoid taking paper currency from any

shopkeeper because it may carry corona virus.

 If you give paper currency note to the shopkeeper

then purchase with whole amount. Avoid taking
money back. Wherever feasible, try to shop
from known vendors where it may be possible to
maintain balance of payments for rollovers.
Using Public Lifts, Staircase…
 If it is required to use lift then keep some paper pieces or toothpicks in your pocket
and touch the push-button with your finger covered with paper or use toothpick
 Remove and throw the paper / toothpick in the waste bin immediately when you come out the
lift without touching it from outside.

 Maintain minimum 6 feet distance from others in lift, it is better to use it individually.
 Avoid crowding in lift always.

Entry at Home…
 Avoid touching the door, call house members to open the door when you enter.
 Put the material at a dedicated place near the door like a table or any box.
 Go to washroom and wash your hands and face with soap for at least 20 seconds.

 Put off your cloths and dip those in

detergent solution and bath with soap (you
can skip this step if you feel that you have
not visited a crowded area).

 Wash your plastic street slippers

properly with detergent solution to
minimize risk of contamination. Avoid
using the same pair of slippers inside
your home – keep the pair outdoors.
Visits by Outsiders…
 If anyone outsider like plumber / electrician / mechanic visits your home then make sure he does not
have fever.
 First of all allow him to sanitize his hands with sanitizer or soap and water.

 Don’t allow him to touch anything except his work.

 Sanitize the place and equipment he used with soap solution after completion of work.

Disinfection of Home…
 Mop the floor daily at least once with 2% detergent solution or 0.2% Lizol® solution
 or Dettol® / Savlon® 3% solution.

Disinfect the main door handle and doorbell with 70% alcohol
based liquid sanitizer.
Disinfection of Kitchenware…
 Kitchen wares are generally cleaned by dish washing soap/ washing
liquid and do not need to disinfect separately.

Disinfection of Clothes…
 Wash your cloths immediately with detergent when you come from outside
the home.
 Wash your towel & daily use cloths frequently.

Disinfection of Hands…
 Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds with water and soap in the
manner as illustrated here.

 Rub the soap on palm, middle of the finger, nails and wrist properly
for 20 seconds and wash with water.

 Alternatively you can use sufficient quantity of the alcohol

based (70%) hand sanitizer to disinfect the hands.

Disinfection of Fruits/Vegetables…
o In current circumstances it is necessary to disinfect the vegetables and
fruits before consumption.
o Depending upon type of vegetable, wash the vegetables and fruits with
lukewarm water by adding salt / baking soda or water with 2% soap /
detergent solution by rubbing with hands.

o Clean with tap water.

o Store in refrigerator for use.

Disinfection of Packaged Milk…

o Wash the packet with 2% soap/ detergent solution by rubbing with hand.

o Wash with tap water.

o Cut the pack; pour into pan and heat to boil.

o If you take milk from milkman then make proper distance during the process
and boil the milk immediately.
Disinfection of Food / Other Material…
o Unpacked food material that cannot be washed must be stored at a
dedicated place for at least 72 hours or as per adjacent advisory before
its consumption / use.
o Avoid purchasing dairy product(s) from market. You may make sweets
and dairy Products at your home.
o The non-food items must be stored at dedicated place for at least
72 hours.

BE SAFE
&
HAPPY WITH YOUR FAMILY
“IT’S A TOUGH TIME, BUT
WE WILL SAIL TOGETHER”