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With so many cases now, it may take awhile before you get picked up and transported to a hospital or low risk centre like MAEPS once you are diagnosed Covid positive. What should you do in the meantime while waiting at home? This is a thread (1/9)
1. If you are Covid positive and are staying at home you must practice home ISOLATION. The people who are sharing a household with someone in isolation should practice home QUARANTINE. If you are returning from abroad and quarantine at home, you must also practice ISOLATION.
2. If someone in your household is in ISOLATION or QUARANTINE, NO VISITORS should be allowed into the house.
If you have someone in your house who is Covid +ve in ISOLATION, all members of the household should be on QUARANTINE & should NOT LEAVE the house.
If you have someone in your house who is Covid +ve in ISOLATION, all members of the household should be on QUARANTINE & should NOT LEAVE the house.
3. ISOLATION means that you must stay at home and remain separated from others in the same household.
- Minimise as much as possible your contact with other members of your household
- Use a separate room and bathroom.
- Minimise as much as possible your contact with other members of your household
- Use a separate room and bathroom.
4. - Do not share any utensils, towels or any personal items.
- Do not cook food or use any shared facilities like laundry - Stay in your room at all times if possible
- Wear a mask if you interact with anyone in your room (use disposable 3-ply medical mask)
- Do not cook food or use any shared facilities like laundry - Stay in your room at all times if possible
- Wear a mask if you interact with anyone in your room (use disposable 3-ply medical mask)
5. Anyone entering your room should wear a mask & maintain at least 1m distance where possible
- Do not reuse masks. Once used, discard masks in a closed bin immediately.
- Constantly wash your hands and clean surfaces.
- Do not reuse masks. Once used, discard masks in a closed bin immediately.
- Constantly wash your hands and clean surfaces.
6. Here are some helpful guidelines on how to isolate. Self-isolation should continue for 10 days (though hopefully you will be admitted by MOH before then).
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/.../self-isolation-covid...
https://www.moph.gov.qa/english/Pages/home-quarantine.aspx
https://www.gov.uk/.../stay-at-home-guidance-for...
https://www.health.gov.au/.../coronavirus-covid-19...
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/.../self-isolation-covid...
https://www.moph.gov.qa/english/Pages/home-quarantine.aspx
https://www.gov.uk/.../stay-at-home-guidance-for...
https://www.health.gov.au/.../coronavirus-covid-19...
7. If you have a family member who is +ve, you must home QUARANTINE. You are not yet +ve for Covid but are at high risk of being so. You must limit your contact with people outside your home.
- Do NOT leave your house or have visitors in your home.
- Do NOT share personal items
- Do NOT leave your house or have visitors in your home.
- Do NOT share personal items
8. Your quarantine ends10 days after the Covid +ve person in your household 1st had symptoms/ diagnosed. Monitor closely for symptoms & contact PKD immediately if you develop any. This is the home assessment tool given to those who are under quarantine
http://covid-19.moh.gov.my/.../Annex_10b_Home_Assessment...
http://covid-19.moh.gov.my/.../Annex_10b_Home_Assessment...
9. Important measures you can take is to ensure adequate ventilation in your home. Be very aware of respiratory droplets (sneezing, coughing, masking) & development of any symptoms.
Your discipline in following SOP is as valuable as the frontliners donning their PPEs everyday.
Your discipline in following SOP is as valuable as the frontliners donning their PPEs everyday.
Proper link to MOH Home Assessment tool here http://covid-19.moh.gov.my/garis-panduan/garis-panduan-kkm/Annex_10b_Home_Assessment_Tool_BI__02102020.pdf
