In quarantine if you have corona? These are the rules of life you must follow

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• You must stay at home, you are not allowed to go out. You may sit in your garden or on your balcony, if no other people are there. You are not allowed to receive visitors, except for the general practitioner and the GGD.
• Is someone very sick? Then call the doctor. Don’t just go to the doctor or hospital.
• Maintain good personal hygiene and good hygiene at home. You can read what that means below.

What should you do if you live in the house with others?

• Only the people who live with you are allowed to be in your house. Your housemates are also not allowed to receive visitors.
• You stay in your own room as much as possible. You also sleep there and you sleep alone.
• The other people in the house come into your room as little as possible.
• You have as little contact as possible with the people in the house and you stay 2 meters away from each other. So no hugging, no kissing and no sex.
• You use your own separate cutlery, plates, cups and glasses.
• You use your own toothbrush.
• You use your own separate towels.
• If possible, use a separate toilet and bathroom for yourself. If you have 1 toilet and 1 bathroom in the house, you can share these with your roommates. It is important that you clean the toilet and bathroom every day and ventilate every day by opening the window for 30 minutes.

Do others have to come into the room with you?

• The other must put on a mask before they come to your room. This is a special kind of mask, called FFP1. You can get this from the GGD.

Do you have to leave the room?

• Put on a mask before leaving the room. This is a so-called surgical mouth nose mask that you receive from the GGD.
• Stay 2 meters away from each other.

How do you ensure good personal hygiene?

• Wash your hands regularly with soap and water. Always do this after coughing and sneezing, after taking off the mask, after going to the toilet, and after cleaning and tidying up. Then disinfect your hands with hand alcohol.
• Use a paper handkerchief. Don’t have a paper handkerchief to hand? Then cough into the crease of your elbow.
• Use a handkerchief only once and throw it away in a plastic bag after use.

How do you ensure good hygiene at home?

• Stay in a separate room as much as possible.
• Open a window in the rooms where you are a few times a day. This way fresh air comes in. Clean the bathroom and toilet every day.
• Also think of the tap, light switches and door handle.
• First, put on disposable gloves.
• Clean with ordinary detergent.
• Then immediately put the cleaning cloth in the wash.
• Take off the gloves and throw them away.
• Then wash your hands with soap and water.

Clean frequently used surfaces every day.

• These are surfaces that you touch regularly, such as bedside tables, door handles and light switches.
• First, put on disposable gloves.
• First clean with normal detergent.
• Then clean the hand contacts such as toilet controls, door handles and light switches with household bleach.
• Take a new bucket with 5 liters of water for this. Put 125 milliliters of bleach in this, that’s a coffee cup full. You can buy bleach at the supermarket.
• Then immediately put the cleaning cloth in the wash.
• Take off the gloves and throw them away.
• Then wash your hands with soap and water.

Avoid spreading bodily fluids, such as stool, spit, snot, sweat and urine.

• Housemates wear gloves that they can throw away when they enter your room, when doing the laundry, dishes, or cleaning up waste that has been used by you.
• Put your laundry in a separate laundry basket and wash it at a minimum of 60 degrees with a full wash program and normal detergent.
• Wash your dishes separately with standard detergent and hot water, or in the dishwasher on an extensive washing program.
• Please dispose of your waste in a separate waste bag in your own room. Wear gloves when removing the waste bag. The bag can simply go in the gray waste bin.