COVID-19

CORONAVIRUS
#BREAKCORONA
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
TO BEAT IT
IN THIS BOOK
YOU WILL FIND :

Covid 19 : About Signs &

An Overview Coronavirus Symptoms

Important Spread of
Telephone Coronavirus
Numbers

Corporate Precautions Myths about

Advisory to take Coronavirus
OVERVIEW
Since its outbreak in Wuhan,
China, the Novel Coronavirus,
now renamed Covid-19, has
caused lakhs of infected cases COVID-19 in India
worldwide. Declared a India has 126 Covid-19
‘controllable’ pandemic by the cases (excluding the
World Health Organisation new cases in
(WHO), the COVID-19 has killed Karnataka), including
over 7,000 people worldwide. three people who have
died and 13 who've
As per WHO, currently, there is been discharged,
no vaccine or special anti-viral according to a tally
treatment for Covid-19, but published by the Union
supportive care can help most Ministry of Health and
patients recover. Precautionary Family Welfare this
measures include regular morning.
hand-hygiene practices with
alcohol-based rub or soap and
water, abstaining from touching
one's face and social distancing.
ABOUT CORONAVIRUS COVID-19, is a new strain of
(COVID-19) coronavirus that has not been
previously identified in humans.
COVID-19 is the name of a
disease caused by the newly Why is it called COVID-19?
discovered Coronavirus, called Covid-19 (Coronavirus
novel coronavirus (nCoV), first disease-19) is the official name
identified in Wuhan, China, given to the novel coronavirus
in December 2019. disease under commonly agreed
Coronaviruses are a large family guidelines between WHO, the
of viruses, named for the World Organization for Animal
crown-like spikes on their Health, and the Food and
surface. Notorious for mutating Agricultural Organization of the
quickly and acquiring new UN. It was earlier being called
qualities, these viruses are highly 2019-nCoV.
contagious and can spread from
human to human.
Coronaviruses can cause
diseases ranging from the
common cold to more severe
diseases like Middle East
Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
and Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS. The novel
Coronavirus, now renamed as
SIGNS & SYMPTOMS

Flu like
symptoms

Fever

Dry cough

Breathlessness

Pneumonia

Fatigue

Gastrointestin
al symptoms
like diarrhoea
COVID-19 SPREAD touching their eyes, nose or
(TRANSMISSION) mouth.
• The disease can spread from • People may also get infected
person to person through if they breathe in droplets
small droplets from the nose from an infected person who
or mouth when an infected coughs out or exhales
person coughs or exhales. droplets. This is why it is
These droplets land on objects important to stay more than 1
and surfaces around the meter (3 feet) away from a
person. person who is sick.
• People can also catch
COVID-19 by touching these
objects or surfaces, then
The airborne route of
transmission is under
investigation. Of late,
this has acquired a
‘superspreader’ status,
wherein cases have
been implicated
through asymptomatic
transmission or in
some where the mode
of transmission is
unexplainable.
MYTHS AROUND COVID-19
1. Will I die if I get 2. Can the novel 3. Can eating meat,
Coronavirus? coronavirus be poultry products like
No. Mortality rate passed on through chicken or eggs cause
ranges between 2-3% food? Coronavirus?
only. Almost 80% of No. Currently, there No. Currently, there is
people have mild is no evidence yet no evidence yet
symptoms and that suggests that suggesting spread of
recover in 2 weeks. novel coronavirus coronavirus directly
Risk of death is be passed on through poultry
higher only in older through food. products. But, it is
people (above an age always good option to
of 60 years) and eat only properly
people with cooked meat.
pre-existing health
conditions

4. Can eating garlic 5. I will not get the 6. Can I catch the virus
prevent infection virus as long as I through my pets?
with the wear a mask. Is this No. There is no
coronavirus? true? evidence to support
No. There’s no Wearing a mask is that this virus can be
science-backed more helpful when transmitted through
evidence that proves you are already sick. domestic pets
its ability to protect Masks are actually
against the used to prevent the
coronavirus. wearer from
spreading their own
germs to other
people when they
cough or sneeze.

7. Can foods like garlic help prevent

the spread of the virus?
No. Garlic has many health benefits,
and more people should be eating it.
No food out there is guaranteed to
prevent you from contracting the
virus. It is not backed up by any
medical studies.
PRECAUTIONS

Systems (crowded busses, metro

trains, etc.)
• If you are not well, seek
INDIVIDUAL CARE immediate medical attention
• Wash your hand regularly with • If you have fever, cough, or
plenty of soap and water. difficulty breathing, stay indoors.
• Keep an alcohol-based sanitizer Call the nearest health centre or
ready for times when soap and call 011-23978046 and follow
water are not available their advice.
• Do not touch your eyes, mouth or • If you have come in contact with
nose with unclean hands a confirmed case or a suspect
• Keep at least 1-meter distance case, follow the home quarantine
from anyone coughing or period is for 14 days
sneezing. • During the quarantine period,
• Follow no-touch greeting. Prefer strictly follow the hand hygiene
“Namaste” or hand-waving over rules and avoid sharing household
handshake items within the family members
utensils, clothes towels etc

COMMUNITY CARE
• Sneeze or cough in the inner side SURFACE CONTACT CARE
of your elbow and not into your
hands. Or, use a tissue and throw • Morning milk bags
it away immediately. • Elevator buttons
• Do not travel or visit crowded • Doorbells
places if you are sick • Newspapers
• Do wear a mask if you are sick • Car door after wash
and also if you are taking care of • Garbage can exchange with
someone with the symptoms housekeeping staff (also their
• Practice Social Distancing, which ingress into housing society, and
means avoid Group & Social movement from house to house)
Gatherings, Theatre outings, • Raw vegetable and fruits
Crowded Retail Stores, Gyms, purchased
Malls, Mass Transport • Shop counters
• Office pantry, lunchroom,
washroom, and door handles
• Garden seats
• Play area swings, etc. (though for DOMESTIC
an unknown reason, young
children thankfully are less • Use wet wipes for cleaning
affected) around your seats
• Maids touching multiple surfaces • Do not touch your eyes, nose or
at home mouth
• All doorknobs. • Cough or sneeze inside the elbow
• Packets of Delivery boys - or use tissues
Amazon, Flipkart, Swiggy, etc. • Clean your hands with soap and
• Any shopping packets water or hand sanitizer
• Currency notes and coins • Sanitize your hands after
• Cabs (Uber, Ola Auto), etc. touching railings, trolleys, poles,
• Bus and train handles handgrips etc.
• Shoes, etc., which may step on spit • Follow the protocols as advised
• If travelling by air, then multiple by respective airport authorities
points from departing terminal to
the arrival terminal

PUBLIC TRANSPORT
• Cough or sneeze inside the elbow
TRAVEL ADVISORY or use tissues
INTERNATIONAL • Wash your hands often, with soap
• Indian citizens are advised to and water, for at least 20 seconds.
refrain from travel to China, Iran, This is the most critical way to
Republic of Korea, Italy and control infections, and it's first
advised to avoid non-essential among the
travel to other COVID-19 affected guidelines for preventing the
countries spread of disease on commercial
• Passengers arriving directly or aircraft
indirectly from China, South Korea, • Sanitize your hands after
Japan, Iran, Italy, Hong Kong, touching railings, trolleys, poles,
Macau, Vietnam, Malaysia, handgrips etc.
Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand, • Maintain 3ft distance with anyone
Singapore and Taiwan must who is coughing or sneezing
undergo medicall • Avoid touching your eyes, nose
and mouth with unwashed hands
SOCIAL DISTANCING AVOID
• Group Gatherings
• Sleep overs SAFE TO DO
• Play Dates
• Concerts • Take a walk
• Theatre outings • Go for a Hike
• Athletic Events • Yard work
• Crowded Retail Stores • Play in your Yard
• Malls • Cleaning out a Closet
• Workouts and Gyms • Read a Good Book
• Visitors in your house • Listen to Music
• Non-essential workers in your • Cook a meal
house • Family Game night
• Mass Transmit Systems • Go for a Drive
• Group Video Chats
• Stream a favorite show
• Check on Friends
• Check on Elderly Neighbor
USE CAUTION
• Visit a local Restaurant
• Visit Grocery Store
• Get Take out
• Pick up Medications
• Play tennis in a Park
• Visiting the Library
• Church Services
• Travelling
Corporate Advisory
Follow the 3A – Augment, Apprise and Assist – MODEL to
prevent COVID at workplace

Augment Workplace Hygiene Be Supportive of Sick

Encourage Individual Hygiene At Employees
Workplace • Monitor employee health when at
• Provide instructions and work – empathize and encourage
reminders at prominent places in health checks in case employee is
the work area for practising “good not feeling well
hygiene practices.” • Leverage in house clinical
• Provide sanitization tools – hand strength for information
sanitizers at common areas, dissemination
sanitized/ disposable tissues at • Provide sick leaves for
workplaces, additional hand quarantined cases
washes in hand washes • Have a mechanism to make
employees on leave be a part of
the system when on leave via
regular updates
• Adopt hygiene guidelines as part
Encourage Workplace Hygiene of the regular work charter
Practices • Replace handshake with
Namaste
• Have an internal “hygiene • Adapt the workplace sick leave
champion” who encourages good policy as per the situation, relax
hygiene practices working hours
• Provide Instructions at work • Consider extending support to
desks as desktop backgrounds, the family of the employees, if
table tops etc. sick, e.g: unpaid sick leaves for
• Review and encourage desk affected family members
cleaning practices, - swiping
surfaces with alcohol swabs
• Increase washroom cleaning
cycles if necessary
• Maintain cough etiquettes
APPRISE THE WORKFORCE
Identify Communication Channels and Structure
Ensure that all employees have access to real-time communication
on COVID 19, including updates on internal policies Make a senior
resource responsible for all communication and disseminate
information via a single source Ensure the medium chosen to share
information is accessible to all resources across the hierarchy,
display the information in prominent places. Use multiple channels
of information

Correct Information at Correct Educate

Time • Distribute / Display FAQs, Myths
• Keep track of new developments and Facts, Helpline Numbers,
from WHO, Govt. of India, MoHFW Symptoms and prevention at
• Send information as and when it prominent places
comes from verified sources • Get a medical professional to talk
• No room for rumours policy to the employees to instil
• Try setting up a special internal confidence and clarify their doubts
helpline number to help • Extend the scope of information
employees for addressing their to employees familyv
• Queries
ASSIST THE WORKFORCE

Support Employees And Their Strengthen And Learn From

Families Different Companies In The
• Empathize with employees who Same
are sick or are on quarantine by • Learn, Reach out and
relaxing work norms for them communicate within and across
• Relax work norms by means of industries for practices adapted
work reallocation, work from by them to handle such
home policies, relaxed working situations
hours, minimizing large
gatherings and meetings etc
• Create and implement interim Be Part Of The Bigger Picture
policies for essential but • Train leadership on
vulnerable population like maintaining high employee
elderly and pregnant women engagement and empathy
• Encourage them to work from • Assist and “adopt” impacted
home unless work critical areas and people in the nearby
• Keep a tab on their health and
community
encourage health checks if
required
• Provide separate transport
facilities if the need be
• Consider unpaid family care
leave to employees
HOME QUARANTINE

Home quarantine is applicable to all such contacts of a suspect or

confirmed case of COVID-19. A Contact may be defined as follows:
• A person living in the same household as a COVID-19 case;
• A person having had direct physical contact with a COVID-19 case
• A person who was in a closed environment or had face to face
contact with a COVID-19 case at a distance of within1metre including
air travel;

The home quarantine

period is for 14 days
from contact with a
confirmed case or
earlier if a suspect case
(of whom the index
person is a contact)
turns out negative on
laboratory testing
 • Avoid shaking the soiled linen
or direct contact with skin
• Use disposable gloves when
cleaning the surfaces or
Instructions for contacts handling soiled linen
(people) being home • Wash hands after removing
quarantined gloves
• Needs to stay away from elderly • Visitors should not be allowed
people, pregnant women, children • In case the person being
and persons with co-morbidities quarantined becomes
within the household. symptomatic, all his close
• Restrict his/her movement within contacts will be home
the house. quarantined (for 14 days) and
• Under no circumstances attend followed up for an additional
any social/religious gathering e.g. 14days or till the report of such
wedding, condolences, etc case turns out negative on lab
• Follow strict hand hygiene rules testing
• Avoid sharing household items
within the family members
utensils, clothes towels etc
• Use surgical masks at all times.
Do not reuse masks, change
masks every 6-8 hours. Dispose
off masks separately and treat Environmental sanitation
them as biohazards
• Clean and disinfect frequently
• If symptoms appear immediately
touched surfaces in the
inform the nearest health center or
quarantined person’s room (e.g.
call 011-23978046.
bed frames, tables etc.) daily
with 1%Sodium Hypochlorite
Solution.
• Clean and disinfect toilet
surfaces daily with regular
household bleach
Instructions for the family
solution/phenolic disinfectants
members of persons being
• Clean the clothes and other
home quarantined
linen used by the person
• Only an assigned family member separately using common
should be tasked with taking care household detergent and dry
of the such person
HEALTH WORKERS

• The staff to follow hand – hygiene guidelines at all times.

• The staff who is likely to come in contact with such a patient,
should be wearing N 95/three ply surgical mask at all times.
• The patient should be kept atleast at arm’s length (preferably six
feet or two arm’s length away).
• A three-ply surgical mask should be offered to the patients and
relatives.
• The patient and relatives should be requested to wear the mask
immediately.
• For patients presenting with a history of travel to China, Korea,
Japan, Iran and Italy (the list shall expand based on GOI
directives), the patient should be taken to a confined area for
detailed history and examination. Such an area (away from
patient care areas) needs to be identified immediately.
• Instead of circulating papers, all communication including details
of the patient (Name, Age, Mobile Number, Address) should be
sent by SMS/ WhatsApp to the hospital nodal officer.
• The patient should be transferred to the Government designated
facility in patient’s own vehicle / Govt. designated ambulances.
• All surfaces need to be cleaned by hypochlorite every shift.
• The masks should be disposed properly as per standard State
guidelines and regulations.

In case of a telephonic conversation with a suspect patient

requesting directions:
• Such patients should be directed to designated State Nodal Hospital
• Request the patient not to travel by public transport
• Provide the helpline number at designated Nodal Hospital
HELPLINE
If symptoms appear immediately inform the nearest health center or call
011-23978046 / 1075 / 1800 112 545
Helpline Numbers of States & Union Territories (UTs)
S. No Name of the State Helpline Nos.
1 Andhra Pradesh 0866-2410978
2 Arunachal Pradesh 9536055743
3 Assam 6913347770
4 Bihar 104
5 Chhattisgarh 077122-35091
6 Goa 104
7 Gujarat 104
8 Haryana 8558893911
9 Himachal Pradesh 104
10 Jharkhand 104
11 Karnataka 104
12 Kerala 0471-2552056
13 Madhya Pradesh 0755-2527177
14 Maharashtra 020-26127394
15 Manipur 3852411668
16 Meghalaya 9366090748
17 Mizoram 102
18 Nagaland 7005539653
19 Odisha 9439994859
20 Punjab 104
21 Rajasthan 0141-2225624
22 Sikkim 104
23 Tamil Nadu 044-29510500
24 Telangana 104
25 Tripura 0381-2315879
26 Uttarakhand 104
27 Uttar Pradesh 18001805145
28 West Bengal 3323412600
S. No Name of Union Territory (UT) Helpline Nos.
1 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 03192-232102
2 Chandigarh 9779558282
3 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and
Daman & Diu 104

4 Delhi 011-22307145
5 Jammu & Kashmir 1912520982, 0194-2440283
6 Ladakh 1982256462
7 Lakshadweep 4896263742
8 Puducherry 104