1. Washing your hands with soap often will protect you from germs.
Your hands are usually in contact with surfaces and therefore exposed to all types of germs. Your hands may carry germs which cause this serious infection. Wash you hands thoroughly and regularly with soap and warm water to prevent posing danger to yourself and others.

Center for Disease Control recommends that your wash your hands for 20
seconds. By rubbing soap breaks down grease and dirt that carry most germs.
Alcohol-based disposable hand wipes or gel sanitizers may be used as alternative
if soap and water are unavailable.

Your hands should be washed:
- before and after having your meals
- before handling of food
- after blowing your nose/sneezing
- after using the toilet
- after touching contaminated / public surfaces such as tabletops, lift/elevator
buttons, door handles/knobs, handrails etc

2. Cover your mouth and nose with tissue when you cough or sneeze.
Virus is contagious, and mainly spread through these secretions/water droplets. Flu virus is spread from person to person through coughing and sneezing by people who have the flu.

Also this secretion can contaminate surfaces. So when you cough or sneeze remember to cover your mouth and nose with a tissue paper. Dispose your tissue in a trash bin properly. Then clean your hands.

3. Putting on a surgical mask when unwell.
Put on a surgical mask to protect others. Remember to wash your hands before putting on the mask and after disposing it into the thrash bin.

Mask should be changed every eight hours or whenever it becomes moist.

4. Taking your temperature

A fever is one of the first symptoms of an infection, and flu-like illness. A fever reading (taken orally) is of at least 100 degrees Fahrenheit or 38 degrees Celsius.

Once you have a fever and developed flu like symptoms such as running nose, cough, sore throat, fatigue) be sure to put on a mask and visit a doctor.

To help avoid spreading the flu, if you have a fever, stay at home until you no longer have a fever or signs of a fever. When you are taking fever-reducing medicines, fever goes up and down, you cannot tell whether your fever is going to return. Therefore, soon after you feel better, monitor your temperature more closely to ensure that your fever is truly gone.

These everyday steps should be taken to help protect your loved ones and those around you from being at risk.