Do you still need protection from Covid-19?

              With the weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 as at June 15 from the WHO stated

 "In the past week, the number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths continued to decrease, with over 2.6 million new cases and 72 000 new deaths reported globally. While the number of cases reported globally now exceeds 175 million, over the past week, the lowest weekly case incidence since February 2021 was reported. Declines in the number of new weekly cases, compared to the previous week, were reported across all Regions except for the African Region. The number of new deaths reported in the past week decreased across all the regions except for the African and South-East Asia Regions.

In this edition, a special focus update on variants is provided, including a newly designated variant of interest (VOI), along with the geographical distribution of variants of concern (VOCs) Alpha (B.1.1.7), Beta (B.1.351), Gamma (P.1) and Delta (B.1.617.2). This edition also includes an update about strengthening public health intelligence through event-based surveillance, specifically learning from the COVID-19 pandemic."

 World Health Organization(WHO) Advice to the Public

Always remember to protect yourself and also protect others from this deadly Corona Virus

If COVID-19 is spreading in your community, stay safe by taking some simple precautions, such as physical distancing, wearing a mask, keeping rooms well ventilated, avoiding crowds, cleaning your hands, and coughing into a bent elbow or tissue. Check local advice where you live and work. Do it all!

More tips to keep yourself and others protected

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Maintain at least a 1-metre distance between yourself and others to reduce your risk 
of infection when they cough, sneeze or speak. Maintain an even greater distance between yourself and others when indoors. The further away, the better.

Make wearing a mask a normal part of being around other people. 
The appropriate use, storage and cleaning or disposal are essential to make masks as effective as possible.

Here are the basics of how to wear a mask:

• Clean your hands before you put your mask on, as well as before and after you

 take it off, and after you touch it at any time.

• Make sure it covers both your nose, mouth and chin.

• When you take off a mask, store it in a clean plastic bag, and every day either wash it if it’s a fabric mask, or dispose of a medical mask in a trash bin.

• Don’t use masks with valves.

               

 Do well not to forget this basics of Good Hygiene

Regularly and thoroughly clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub
 or wash them with soap and water. This eliminates germs including viruses that may be on your hands.

Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. Hands touch many surfaces and can 
pick up viruses. Once contaminated, hands can transfer the virus to your eyes, nose or mouth. From there, the virus can enter your body and infect you.

Cover your mouth and nose with your bent elbow or tissue when you cough or sneeze. Then dispose of the used tissue immediately into a closed bin and wash your hands. By following good ‘respiratory hygiene’, you protect the people around you from viruses, which cause colds, flu and COVID-19.

Clean and disinfect surfaces frequently especially those which are regularly touched, such as door handles, faucets and phone screens.

• Stay Physically Active

Exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness. It aids growth and improve strength, preventing aging, developing muscles and the cardiovascular system, weight loss or maintenance, improving health and also for enjoyment. Exercise boost your immune system and helps fight some diseases in the human system

• Check your Diet for a healthy living

A solid eating regimen is an eating routine that keeps up or improve in general wellbeing. A solid eating routine gives the body fundamental nourishment: liquid, macronutrients, micronutrients, and sufficient food energy. A solid eating regimen may contain natural products, vegetables, and entire grains, and may incorporate practically no handled food or improved drinks. The prerequisites for a sound eating regimen can be met from an assortment of plant-based and creature based food varieties, albeit a non-plant wellspring of nutrient B12 is required for those after a veggie lover diet. Different sustenance guides are distributed by clinical and legislative establishments to instruct people on the thing they ought to eat to be solid. Sustenance realities names are additionally compulsory in certain nations to permit purchasers to pick between food sources dependent on the parts applicable to wellbeing.

Let's all protect ourselves and others to gain zero active cases of Covid-19 worldwide