If you feel have contracted the disease, stay home for 14 days and only seek medical treatment with the occurrence of symptoms like fever, dry cough, and shortness of breath or diarrhea. Otherwise, you don’t need to visit and be hospitalized.

To care for the patient, it is necessary that the following guidelines are observed by the household caregivers:

1. Have the patient use a separate room with good ventilation (open the windows to increase air circulation). The “sick room” must be marked. If there are no separate rooms, put up a divider between the space where the patient is staying and other people’s places.
2. Family members should avoid visiting the patient’s room. If this is not possible and the space is limited, the patient should maintain a distance of up to 1 or 1.50 meters from other family members, what is more they need to observe respiratory- related health procedures aside from wearing a mask. Patient displacement in shared space should be kept to the minimum.
3. It is advisable that someone with a good health condition look after the patient. They should wear mask and avoid touching it and wash hands before and after handling the masks. In case the mask gets droplets from the patient’s cough and respiratory secretions, change mask in a healthy manner.
4. It is crucial that the caregiver washes hands for 40 to 60 seconds each time they come into contact with the patient, their belongings or surfaces in their vicinity.
5. To dry hands use disposable paper towels, otherwise use personal towel. If the towel gets wet, wash with water and soap and dry.
6. It is essential that dishes and glasses belonging to the patient are washed with water and detergent.
7. A daily disinfection of surfaces touched by the patient as well as the toilet and the washbasin with a one percent diluted bleach (3 glasses of water and one glass of bleach) is required.
8. Clothes, towel, cover belonging to the patient should be machine-washed with a temperature of 60 to 90 degrees.
9. The caregiver should avoid direct contact with patients’ bodily fluids, in particular oral, respiratory and urinary secretions. In addition, all disposable items used in relation with the patient and the caregiver such as mask, paper towels and disposable gloves and so on should be discarded in a proper way ( wrapped in plastic bags).
10. The caregiver should monitor their health daily for 14 days and watch for the first signs of developing symptoms ( fever, dry cough, sore throat, shortness of breath,…) and notify a health center if this were the case.
11. If the signs of the patient took a turn for the worse, the caregiver should notify without delay the health center responsible for the patient. And if in the case someone else in the family showed signs of disease contraction, the health center of the town should be immediately notified.
12. Avoid transporting the patient with public transportation services.
13. Observing respiratory-related health procedures as well as regular and proper washing of hands are among the best health protocols.
14. If possible, separate the restroom used by the patient and wash with 1% diluted bleach after each use.