How to Stay Safe from the Novel Coronavirus
Preventing and controlling the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (新冠肺炎) is becoming more and more important. Here are some simple precautions(预防措施) to help stay away from the virus.
The virus can be spread from person to person. The disease has an incubation period (潜伏期) of two weeks. At present, there is no special treatment for the disease caused by 2019-nCoV. So it is very important to stay away from gatherings.
Wearing medical masks in a correct way is of use to protect you from the coronavirus. You should wear masks in subways, buses, or in a supermarket. When wearing medical masks, make sure the masks can cover your mouth, nose and lower jaw completely, then compress nose clip so that mask and face are in full contact with each other.
Wash hands before eating, after toilet, coming home. When washing hands, use running water and soap, with no less than 15 seconds for cleaning hands. If you need to pick up other people's cell phones or use other people's computer keyboards, don't touch your face at once before washing hands.
If you share meals, do not use your personal chopsticks or spoons to get food from a serving bowl or plate. Place serving spoons in each dish and get what you want from the serving dishes onto your personal plates or bowls, put the serving spoon back to the main dish, and then use your personal chopsticks only to pick food from your personal plate or bowl into your mouth.
If these simple precautions are taken by everybody in your household, building, office, and school, it will be easy to prevent and control the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
