Wash your hands
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COVID-19 can spread when we touch surfaces with coronavirus on them and then touch our faces.
Wash your hands as often as you can, but especially:
- After using the toilet.
- Before preparing or eating food.
- After caring for somebody who is sick.
- After being in a public place.
- After blowing your nose or coughing or sneezing into your hand.
Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds.
- Roll up your sleeves, rinse hands in clean water and apply soap to palm.
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Rub palms together.
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Rub tips of nails against palm. Swap hands.
3
Rub fingers between each other.
4
Place hand over back of other, rub between fingers. Swap.
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Grip fingers and rub together.
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Rub each thumb with opposite palm.
- Rinse your hands with water and dry them with a paper towel or let them dry on their own.
- If you have sanitiser, use it if your hands are not dirty and only if soap and water are not available.
