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You can help to keep yourself and others safe from COVID-19 by\

• Staying at least two metres away from people outside your own home.
• Keeping doors and windows open to blow the virus out, or preferably meeting outside.
• Wearing a face mask when away from home, which should be washed each time you return.
• Washing your hands often, especially when you get home or entering and leaving a shop or
market, and before you touch your nose, mouth and eyes.
• Sneezing and coughing into your elbow, not into your hand, so that if you have the virus it does
not spread upwards and outwards.
• Encouraging or insisting that people at markets and shops wear masks and keep safe
distances when interacting or waiting in a queue.
• Advocate for the provision of hand-sanitisers or hand-washing when entering shops and markets.
• Wash your hands before you enter your home to avoid bringing the virus in on your hands.
• Don’t stigmatise people who have COVID-19. If that happens then many people will hide their
condition and continue to go out in public, infecting more people. They may even avoid being
seen at the clinic, becoming even sicker. It is easy for anyone to get the disease and we must treat
them with compassion and kindness when they do.

Who is most vulnerable to COVID-19?
Some young people and children do get sick from COVID-19, but those most likely to die from
COVID-19 are:
• older people, over 65
• those with other illnesses, especially hypertension and diabetes, or both
• people who are overweight or obese because they often eat unhealthy food

Look at the picture, and discuss;

• Which people are behaving in a way that is risky?
• Which people are behaving in a way that will protect
themselves and others?
• What other precautions do you think you could take to
help keep yourself and others safe in an outdoor market?

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