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HOT Classroom Social distancing greetings poster

If you have COVID-19 infection, have symptoms consistent with COVID-19, or have been in close contact with someone with COVID-19, it is important that you stay home and keep your distance. until it is safe to be around someone else.

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COVID-19 can live for hours or days on a single surface, depending on factors such as sunlight, humidity and surface type. A person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it, and then touching their mouth, nose, or eyes again. However, it is not thought that this is the main route of virus transmission. Social isolation helps limit the number of exposures to infected surfaces and the infected person being outside of the home.

Although the risk of developing a serious illness may differ from person to person, anyone can infect and spread COVID-19. Everyone has a role to play in slowing the spread of disease and protecting themselves, their families and their communities. Besides taking the daily COVID-19 precautions, maintaining distance between you and others is one of the best tools to prevent exposure to the virus and slow its spread. of viruses in communities.