Frequently touched surfaces such as tables, doorknobs, light switches, and phones should be cleaned regularly.
While self-isolating to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, it's important to keep your home clean. It's especially important, however, to keep your home clean if you are caring for someone who is sick. This will help minimize the risk of you or anyone else getting sick by killing the virus that could be lingering on surfaces, door handles, phones, and so on.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has put together a guide to cleaning and disinfecting your home while caring for someone who is sick. The CDC's first piece of advice is that you should wear disposable gloves while cleaning your home.Frequently touched surfaces, such as tables, doorknobs, light switches, countertops, handles, desks, phones, keyboards, toilets, faucets, and sinks.
To make your own bleach solution, mix five tablespoons of bleach per gallon of water or four teaspoons of bleach per quart of water. You can also disinfect surfaces using alcohol solutions with at least 70 percent alcohol, or by using household cleaners and disinfectants after cleaning the surface with soap and water.How to clean and disinfect soft surfaces
Cleaning soft surfaces like carpets, rugs, and drapes, is also important while caring for somebody who is sick. You can clean the soft surfaces with soap and water, with soft surface household cleaners, or by laundering the items using the warmest appropriate water and then drying the items completely.The CDC recommends wearing disposable gloves when doing the laundry for someone who is sick, and to avoid shaking any dirty clothes.
After doing the laundry, clean and disinfect the clothes hampers, dispose of the gloves and wash your hands.
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