Bsneak pays attention to health.
You can become ill if you are infected with SARS-CoV2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Your body defends itself against the virus in different ways. The first line of defence is your skin. It forms a kind of wall around your body that is impenetrable to many pathogens. In addition, there are numerous other lines of defence that a pathogen must pass through before you can become ill, such as your immune system. For that reason, a single virus particle is rarely enough to make you sick. You will (usually) have to come into contact with many virus particles before you become ill.
A person who is ill from the novel coronavirus produces millions of copies of the virus inside their body. The virus is mainly found in the lungs, but also in other ‘moist’ parts of your body, such as your throat or nasal cavity. When you sneeze or cough, you are not just pushing out air: lots of droplets also come out of your lungs, throat or nasal cavity. The novel coronavirus spreads through these droplets.
The virus can spread from an infected person’s mouth or nose in small liquid particles when they cough, sneeze, speak, sing or breathe heavily. These liquid particles are different sizes, ranging from larger ‘respiratory droplets’ to smaller ‘aerosols’.
Other people can catch COVID-19 when the virus gets into their mouth, nose or eyes, which is more likely to happen when people are in direct or close contact (less than 1 metre apart) with an infected person.
Current evidence suggests that the main way the virus spreads is by respiratory droplets among people who are in close contact with each other.
How to prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading:
Wash your hands often with soap. This will remove the virus from your hands, making it harder to infect yourself or others.
Avoid touching your face with your hands as much as possible. This reduces the risk that you will become infected if you have the virus on your hands, and makes it less easy for you to infect others.
Cough and sneeze into your elbow, to keep the virus off your hands.
Use paper tissues to blow your nose and discard them after use.
Do not shake hands. Avoiding hand contact makes it harder for the virus to spread via hands.
Stay 1.5 metres (2 arm lengths) apart from others. This makes it harder for the virus to spread via (accidental) coughing or sneezing.
Work from home, unless it is absolutely necessary that you go to work. If people have less contact with each other, the virus cannot spread as easily.
Stay at home as much as possible.
CEO: MR. Berkan Lenck
