Main symptoms Ways to Protect Avoid close

contact
of Covid-19: Yourself from
Covid-19 • Inside your home: Avoid close contact
with people who are sick.
• Fever - If possible, maintain 6 feet
between the person who is sick
• Coughing Wash your and other household members.
• Shortness of breath hands often! • Outside your home: Put 6 feet of distance
between yourself and people who don’t
• Trouble breathing live in your household.
• Fatigue
• Wash your hands often with soap and
• Chills, sometimes with water for at least 20 seconds Wear a
shaking especially after you have been in a mask!
• Body aches public place, or after blowing your
nose, coughing, or sneezing.
• Headache • If soap and water are not readily
• Masks help prevent you from
• Sore throat available, use a hand sanitizer that
getting or spreading the virus.
• Congestion/runny contains at least 60% alcohol. Cover all
• You could spread COVID-19 to
surfaces of your hands and rub them
nose others even if you do not feel
together until they feel dry.
• Loss of smell or taste sick.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and
• Everyone should wear
• Nausea mouth with unwashed hands.
a mask in public settings and
• Diarrhea when around people who don’t
live in your household,
especially when other social
distancing measures are
difficult to maintain.
 How it is spread?
• Droplets or aerosols. When an • Surface transmission. Another way
infected person coughs, to catch the new coronavirus is
sneezes, or talks, droplets or when you touch surfaces that
someone who has the virus has
tiny particles called aerosols coughed or sneezed on. You may
carry the virus into the air touch a countertop or doorknob
from their nose or mouth. that's contaminated and then touch
What you need Anyone who is within 6 feet of your nose, mouth, or eyes. The virus
that person can breathe it into can live on surfaces like plastic and
to know about stainless steel for 2 to 3 days. To
their lungs. stop it, clean and disinfect all
Covid-19? • Airborne counters, knobs, and other surfaces
transmission. Research you and your family touch several
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) is times a day.
shows that the virus can live
an illness caused by a virus
that can spread from person in the air for up to 3 hours. It • Fecal-oral. Studies also suggest
to person. can get into your lungs if that virus particles can be found in
someone who has it breathes infected people's poop. But experts
• The virus that causes
aren't sure whether the infection
COVID-19 is a new coronavirus out and you breathe that air in. can spread through contact with an
that has spread throughout
Experts are divided on how infected person's stool. If that
the world.
often the virus spreads person uses the bathroom and
• COVID-19 symptoms can
range from mild (or no
through the airborne route doesn't wash their hands, they could
and how much it contributes infect things and people that they
symptoms) to severe illness.
touch.
to the pandemic.