rules, precautions and what to do in home insulation

How the home quarantine works, waveisolation at home following a find coronavirus positivity or COVID-19. Many asymptomatic patients in Italy, or with mild symptoms, a case history involving activation of isolation procedures in your house. But how it works, What can be done And what are the behaviors to avoid in this particular case?

The answers to this question are different and vary from case to case: much depends on the cohabitants living under the same roof, the type of apartment and the case in question (quarantine by close contact with positive or isolation due to open positivity coronavirus).

In this small guide we try to guide ourselves on what to do and how to behave if you are under a quarantine or home isolation regime for COVID-19.

Home isolation and coronavirus quarantine: what to do? Rules and behaviors

If a person tests positive for the coronavirus but lives with other subjects with an uncertain or negative result, it is important to follow some precise rules that, absurd as they are on paper, can contribute in a fundamental way to avoiding new infections under the same roof.

No person who has come into contact with a positive person or who has lived with a positive person at home can go out (or risk very severe penalties) for a minimum period of 10 days (up to the control panel): it is very shopping is prohibited, which must be delivered to your home, or Throw the trash. The only valid reason to leave your house is to go, at the end of the window period established by the new regulations, to the nearest unit to clean your car.

If you live in a studio apartment and share a single space with a patient with positive coronavirus, health facilities can evaluate the transfer, according to the decision of the subjects involved, to facilities such as Covid Hotels (for more information, consult your ASL) .

Home isolation of the coronavirus: rules for the positive patient and coexistence

Below is a helpful manual of recommended rules to follow at home (outlined by the ISS Infection Prevention and Control Working Group):

• the person in home isolation must stay in a dedicated room me equipped with good ventilation possibly served by a dedicated bathroom, Must dwasteland alone and limit movement to other areas of the house where there are other people.
• If only one bath is available, after use, clean it with chlorine-based products (such as bleach) at a concentration of 0.5% active chlorine or with 70% alcohol.
• It is important that the rooms that house a positive person in home isolation are ventilated to ensure adequate air exchange.
• In the presence of other people a distance of at least 1 meter must be kept and it absolutely must be any type of direct contact is prohibited (handshakes, kisses, hugs). Direct contact with other people subjected to home isolation should also be prohibited. An exception is made only for a breastfeeding mother, who will have to wear a mask and completely disinfect her hands.
• Avoid all possible routes of exposure with shared objects such as towels, washcloths, sheets, plates, glasses, silverware. Kitchen utensils should be washed with special care and with normal soap.
• Moving or traveling is strictly prohibited and there is an obligation to remain available for health surveillance activities.
• The person with symptomatic or asymptomatic positivity has themandatory to wear a mask at home if you moved out of your room used for isolation. The same rule for those who live with or care for an infected person.
• All waste produced during the isolation period must be collected as undifferentiated trash and closed in a double garbage bag.
• At least once a day, the surfaces of the rooms used by the isolated person should be cleaned with Cleaning products and disinfect with active chlorine-based products or alcohol (at least 70%) with special attention to frequently touched surfaces. Disposable gloves are recommended for cleaning.
• The clothes of the infected person in isolation should be collected in a separate bag and separated from the clothes of roommates. For washing, 60 degrees is recommended for at least 3 minutes.