These include:
Social distancing: This means physically keeping a distance of 1.5 metres or more from other people whenever possible, thereby reducing the chance of droplets containing virus from their breath or cough, being inhaled or landing on your skin and being transferred to your eyes, mouth and nose when you touch your body, and then your face.
Hand Hygiene: Washing your hands with soap and water or alcohol-based hand sanitizer is very important in reducing the chance of you inadvertently transferring virus from contaminated surfaces to your eyes, mouth and nose.
How to reduce infections in supermarkets
Plan your shop so that you need to go less often - practice social distancing (e.g. keep the shopping trolley between you and the next person), carry hand sanitizer whenever possible (or make good use of it if provided in stores), and wear a cloth mask at all times, keeping hands away from your face.
Insist that shoppers wear masks and make sure that when people enter the store, a staff member sprays an approved alcohol-based hand sanitizer on their hands and/or a touch-free hand sanitizer dispenser is available and kept well-stocked.
Although this might be more challenging for early childhood development and special needs schools, if teachers wear a face mask or visor and do regular hand hygiene they will reduce the risk of infecting children.
