Covid 19: ¿What To Do If You Are Sick?

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¿What to do if you are sick?

Wash your hands frequently

 If you have a fever, cough, or other 1. Wash your hands often with soap and
symptoms, you could have COVID- Water for at least 20 seconds, especially
after you´ve been in a public place, or after
19. Most people have a mild illness
blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
and manage to recover at home. If
you think you may have been 2. If you don´t have soap and water, use a
exposed to COVID-19, contact your hand sanitizer that contains at least 60%
healthcare provider immediately. alcohol. Cover all surfaces of your hands and
 Track your symptoms. rub until you feel dry.
 If you have difficulty breathing,
seek medical attention 3. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth
immediately. without washing your hands.

The symptoms may appear:


The 2 to 14 days after exposure to the virus.

¿How to care for someone


who is sick?
 Obtain updated COVID-19
information from public health
officials.
 Create an emergency contact list
that includes family, friends,
neighbors, and local organizations
COVID 19
that you and your family can contact Juan David Pérez Buitrago
if you need access to services, health Grade: 9 – 01
care assistance, and resources.
¿How it is transmitted?
“Health is not
everything, but
It spreads mainly from person to
person… without it,
 Between people who are in close everything else is
contact (at a distance of 6 feet).
 Through respiratory droplets that nothing”
are produced when a person
coughs, sneezes, or speaks.
 COVID-19 can be spread through
people who do not have symptoms.
¿How and when to wear the
Symptoms mask?
 Everyone should use a cloth face
covering when they leave their houses
to find other necessary products. O
¿What is Covid 19? face covers should not be used on
children under 2 years of age or on
COVID 19 is the most recently discoveret people whit respiratory problems.
infectious disease caused by the coronavirus.  The face cloth cover is to protect other
Both the new virus and the disease were people in case you are infected.
unknown before the outbreak in Wuhan,  DO NOT wear a mask intended for
China, in December 2019. healthcare workers.
 Keep a distance of about 6 feet from
other people. The cloth face covering
does not replace social distancing
measures.

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