We introduced further measures to minimise the impact COVID-19 may have possibly had on your health before we suspended our services temporarily. But just because we have ceased our activities until further notice, does not mean we are not able to still try and help you. 

You should have already been washing your hands before, during and after preparing and eating food and now, because of the coronavirus covid-19, you should even be washing your hands after moving around your own home.

Be aware of the importance of sanitising strategic areas of your home more deeply, such as frequently touched places, to reduce the chances of catching the coronavirus covid-19.

Your standard house cleaning products are suitable for cleaning your home frequently. Clean and then disinfect objects and surfaces that are touched regularly. 

The certain surfaces that should be cleaned regularly in your home are the areas such as kitchen worktops, taps, door handles and the surrounding areas such as door frames. Most people when opening and or closing a door won’t just touch the handle! 

Light switches and window latches etc. are also important, as are bathrooms and the toilets in your home. These areas are all important places to clean. They are used and touched often.

You can also sanitise yourself as you leave your home, after getting of a bus and even after leaving a shop too.

How? Well apart from the hand washing, (hand sanitiser for your hands when outside, if you can get some), you can follow the methods our house cleaners used, including disinfecting your clothes by spraying yourself down with disinfectant. Be sure not to breathe it in or get it on your skin.

This will help you not to spread the coronavirus covid-19 in case you have it and show no symptoms, helping to protect the wider public and also, it can help to protect your family when you return home, ensuring any coronavirus that you may have pick up on your clothes is killed off before you enter.

According to a new study from the National Institutes of Health, CDC, UCLA and Princeton University scientists in The New England Journal of Medicine, the virus that causes coronavirus covid-19 is stable for several hours to days in aerosols and on surfaces. 

This should be stored in a safe place for three days before being discarded. If a case of covid-19 is confirmed, contact your healthcare team to find out how to discard of the potentially contaminated rubbish.

It's really important you do not put this waste out with the usual rubbish for weekly collection until the waste has been stored for at least 72 hours or found out what to do with it if coronavirus covid-19 is confirmed within your household.

I would also like to make you aware that the, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, states symptoms are a fever, cough and shortness of breath. They also state emergency warning signs are, and to seek medical attention immediately, if you develop trouble breathing, persistent pain or pressure in the chest, or confusion amongst other symptoms.

It is or is not clear what the worrying signs to look out for are but be mindful that you may have covid-19 with none or little symptoms at all and they (the minor symptoms) may not necessarily be listed above. The important thing is to stay as safe as you possibly can by keeping your house clean and disinfected and take the necessary precautions if you must go out.

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