Advice For Patients To Reduce COVID-19 infections

Posted on November 27th, 2020

Advice for Patients To Reduce COVID-19 infections

Coronavirus is most infectious before people start to have any symptoms. This means that someone can have the virus without knowing about it, and easily pass it on. They won’t be aware of the risk to other people until it’s too late.

Coming in to contact with fewer people helps reduce the risk. But when you’re with someone, you could pick up germs from anyone they have met in the last 2 weeks. And anyone that those people met in the last 2 weeks too! Have they ALL been careful to avoid catching the virus?

The Germ Defence website gives practical advice on how your patients can reduce the spread of coronavirus in the home. The COVID-19 version of Germ Defence was developed by clinicians and scientists at the Universities of Bristol, Southampton and Bath in collaboration with Public Health England. A