How to protect yourself against coronavirus (COVID-19) with disinfectant

World Health Organization (WHO) recommends people take these simple precautions against coronavirus to reduce exposure and transmission. Eucalip’s Det-Sol 500 and Det-Sol 5000 is instrumental in preventing the spread of the disease by thoroughly cleaning hard surfaces in public and private areas. It comes in small sachets that, when mixed with water, create a powerful disinfectant with a five year shelf life.

Environmental Cleaning in Healthcare Facilities

The World Health Organisation and the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) have released Environmental Cleaning in Healthcare Facilities which state that the use of Sodium Hypochlorite (Det-Sol) is recommended for hard surface infection control.

Det-Sol is a pre-measured, blended, chlorinated formula, packed in tamper-proof sachets which when dissolved in one litre of water becomes sodium hypochlorite or bleach.

Sodium hypochlorite is used in every major hospital worldwide for infection control as it is effective, easy to use and economical.

Det-Sol has the advantage of being easy to deploy (one carton of Det-Sol 500 makes 250 litres of sodium hypochlorite and only weighs 1.5kgs) is effective and has a positive strength when in solution as opposed to packaged liquid products which dissipate in strength from date of manufacture.

Det-Sol is listed with the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) as a hospital-grade disinfectant and has “Recognised Supplier Status” from the Australian military.  

Email Stephen Chaplin for details and pricing eualipgroup@bigpond.com 

www.eucalipgroup.com

Below: How to avoid catching the coronavirus. A visual guide Illustration: Guardian Design

How does the coronavirus spread?

  • The Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak is a new illness and scientists are still assessing how it spreads from person to person, but similar viruses tend to spread via cough and sneeze droplets.
  • When an infected person coughs or sneezes, they release droplets of saliva or mucus. These droplets can fall on people in the vicinity and can be either directly inhaled or picked up on the hands then transferred when someone touches their face, causing infection. For flu, some hospital guidelines define exposure as being within six feet of an infected personwho sneezes or coughs for 10 minutes or longer.
Stay six feet from infected individuals.
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 Stay six feet from infected individuals.
  • Viruses can also be spread through droplets landing on surfaces such as seats on buses or trains or desks in school. However, whether this is a main transmission route depends on how long viruses survive on surfaces – this can vary from hours to months.
  • There is anecdotal evidence that the virus can be spread by people before they have symptoms. Some other illnesses such as flu can be passed from one person to another before symptoms occur – but the extent to which this is happening with the Wuhan coronavirus is not well understood yet.

How to protect yourself and others

Wash your hands.
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 Wash your hands.
  • Wash your hands: wet your hands with clean, running water and apply soap. Lather your hands, including the backs, between your fingers, and under your nails and scrub for at least 20 seconds. Rinse.

Cover your mouth.
 Cover your mouth.
  • Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze, then throw the tissue in the bin and wash your hands. If you do not have a tissue to hand, cough or sneeze into your elbow rather than your hands.

Face masks offer some protection.
 Face masks offer some protection.
  • Face masks offer some protection as they block liquid droplets. However, they do not block smaller aerosol particles that can pass through the material of the mask. The masks also leave the eyes exposed and there is evidence that some viruses can infect a person through the eyes.

Seek medical help.
 Seek medical help.
  • Seek early medical help if you have a fever, cough and difficulty breathing, and share your travel history with healthcare providers.

Avoid live animals.
 Avoid live animals.
  • If visiting live markets in affected areas avoid direct, unprotected contact with live animals and surfaces that have been in contact with animals.

Avoid raw foods.
 Avoid raw foods.
  • If you have returned from an affected area in the last two weeks, stay indoors and avoid contact with other people for 14 days. This means not going to work, school or public areas.

Seek medical advice before leaving home.
 Seek medical advice before leaving home.
  • If you have returned from an infected area and develop a high temperature, cough, runny nose, sore throat or difficulty breathing do not leave your home until you have been given advice by a doctor.

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