The world is mighty scared of the ongoing threat of the spread of the deadly Coronavirus.

They are doing all they can to avoid more mortality rates.

To best protect yourself from contracting Coronavirus, here is what is recommended by WHO.

1. Make sure your workplaces are clean and hygienic.
2. Surfaces (e.g. desks and tables) and objects (e.g. telephones, keyboards) need to be wiped

   with disinfectant regularly.

3. Why? Because contamination on surfaces touched by employees and customers is one of the main ways that COVID-19 spreads.
4. Promote regular and thorough hand-washing by employees, contractors and customers.
5. Put sanitizing hand rub dispensers in prominent places around the workplace. Make sure

   these dispensers are regularly refilled.

6. Display posters promoting hand-washing.
7. Combine this with other communication measures such as offering guidance from occupational health and safety officers, briefings at meetings and information on the intranet to promote hand-washing.
8. Make sure that staff, contractors and customers have access to places where they can

   wash their hands with soap and water

9. Why? Because washing kills the virus on your hands and prevents the spread of COVID-19
10. Promote good respiratory hygiene in the workplace
11. Display posters promoting respiratory hygiene. Combine this with other communication measures such as offering guidance from occupational health and safety officers, briefing at meetings and information on the intranet etc.
12. Ensure that face masks1 and / or paper tissues are available at your workplaces, for those

    who develop a runny nose or cough at work, along with closed bins for hygienically

    disposing of them

13. Why? Because good respiratory hygiene prevents the spread of COVID-19
14. Advise employees and contractors to consult national travel advice before going on business trips.
15. Brief your employees, contractors and customers that if COVID-19 starts spreading in your

    community anyone with even a mild cough or low-grade fever (37.3 C or more) needs to stay at

    home. They should also stay at home (or work from home) if they have had to take simple

    medications, such as paracetamol/acetaminophen, ibuprofen or aspirin, which may mask

    symptoms of infection

16. Keep communicating and promoting the message that people need to stay at home even

    if they have just mild symptoms of COVID-19.

17. Display posters with this message in your workplaces. Combine this with other

    communication channels commonly used in your organization or business.

18. Your occupational health services, local public health authority or other partners may

    have developed campaign materials to promote this message

19. Make clear to employees that they will be able to count this time off as sick leave.

Check out some viral photos of how people around the world are protecting themselves.