Warm reminders for home isolation and medical observation for patients infected with the new coronavirus in Jinan

During the home isolation medical observation period, in order to better protect the health of you, your companions, and your neighbors, the relevant matters are hereby reminded as follows. Please know and comply with them:

1. Obey management. Please actively cooperate with the unified management of the community and strictly abide by various measures of home isolation. Except for medical follow-up and nucleic acid testing, it is strictly prohibited to open the door, go out, and all visits are strictly prohibited.

2. The home conditions must be met. When isolating at home, you must choose a residence where no other people live or a room with a separate bathroom and good ventilation as your isolation place, and place a table and stool at the door of the room as a non-contact transfer point for items. Your room should be equipped with personal protective equipment such as thermometers, paper towels, N95 masks, disposable gloves, disinfectants, and trash cans with lids.

It is recommended that you live alone as much as possible. If you really need someone to accompany you, you should choose a healthy person who has completed the full course of COVID-19 vaccination and boosted immunity. They should be quarantined at home according to the same standards.

3. Maintain a healthy lifestyle. A regular schedule is the fundamental guarantee for your recovery. When at home, you and your caregivers can choose to take traditional Chinese medicine to treat COVID-19.

If you live alone, you must wear an N95 mask correctly when receiving door-to-door services. You do not need to wear a mask at other times.

If you are accompanied by a caregiver, your daily life and meals must be restricted to the isolation room. Except for dining, drinking, and sleeping, you should wear an N95 mask at other times. No other personnel shall enter the isolation room unless there are special circumstances. Room.

4. Health monitoring should be done on time. Please actively cooperate with community health service centers or township health centers to carry out remote consultation, symptom monitoring and nucleic acid testing. Monitor body temperature and condition changes twice a day, morning and evening, and proactively report to community staff.

If the symptoms of respiratory infection or existing underlying diseases are significantly aggravated, please call the grassroots medical staff in time and cooperate with the diagnosis and treatment. If you really need to go out for medical treatment, under the condition of good protection, the community worker will The personnel contacted the 120 negative pressure ambulance and transferred them to the designated hospital for diagnosis and treatment in a closed loop.

5. Please do not forget to implement the relevant hygiene and epidemic prevention requirements when you are at home.

_Open windows for ventilation no less than 3 times a day, for no less than 30 minutes each time. Fresh air contributes to good health and a happy mood.

_Please do not share daily necessities with other members of the family. The tableware you use should be washed and disinfected.

_The surfaces of daily contact items such as countertops, door handles, telephones, switches, hot water bottles, wash basins, toilets, etc. in your residence must be disinfected regularly. When your towels, clothes, quilts, etc. need to be washed, they should be placed separately, boiled for 15 minutes for disinfection, and then rinsed with clean water.

_When you are at home, you need to use a separate bathroom, which should be ventilated, cleaned and disinfected immediately after use. If you cannot meet the conditions of living alone, it is recommended that you disinfect it once after each use.

_Some small details you need to know: the toilet seat in the bathroom should be closed at all times, and the toilet seat should be closed before flushing after defecation. Do not use exhaust fans. The wet and dry floor drains in bathrooms and kitchens need to be filled with water regularly every day. You can use regular mineral water bottles and fill 1 bottle a day. After filling, cover the lid and press it with a water-filled plastic bag to prevent aerosols from spreading viruses through water and sewers. Use tape, plastic film, etc. to seal the range hood and flue to reduce the risk of fume transmission through the passage. Appropriately adjust cooking methods, reduce cooking methods such as frying and deep-frying that tend to produce fumes, and use more cooking methods such as steaming and cooking.

_Tissues, masks, disposable gloves and other domestic garbage that you have used or used with your attendants should be put into yellow garbage bags for special disposal. Before cleaning, use chlorine containing 500mg/L~ Spray and disinfect with 1000mg/L chlorine-containing disinfectant or 75% alcohol until completely wet, then tie the plastic bag tightly and wait for the community to send someone to collect it.

6. Protect yourself.

In order to achieve the same health goals, your escorts should protect themselves when they come into contact with you and when handling pollutants and contaminated surfaces for you. They need to wear disposable hats, medical protective masks, and disposable Isolation gown, use disposable latex gloves, etc. Regardless of the situation, the caregiver must clean and disinfect their hands after having any direct contact with you.

7. Lift the isolation conditions. If you have been quarantined at home for 7 days and the test results on the 6th and 7th days are negative, you can be released from home quarantine and then transferred to 7 days of home health monitoring. A nucleic acid test will be performed on the 3rd and 7th days. If the results are negative, the home health monitoring will end.

Details determine success or failure, and persistence will lead to victory. Thank you very much for supporting epidemic prevention and control and consciously accepting isolation management. Thank you for your responsibility and self-discipline. I wish you a speedy recovery and enjoy the sunshine and a better life.

Jinan Center for Disease Control and Prevention

December 7, 2022