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| A highway sign in
Toronto discouraging non-essential travel during
the pandemic lockdown in March 2020. |
Isolation
In health care facilities, isolation represents one of
several measures that can be taken to implement
infection control: the prevention of contagious diseases
from being spread from a patient to other patients,
health care workers, and visitors, or from outsiders to
a particular patient (reverse isolation).
Various forms of isolation exist
Isolation is most commonly used when a patient is known
to have a contagious (transmissible from
person-to-person) viral or bacterial illness.
Special equipment is used in the management of patients
in the various forms of isolation. These most commonly
include items of personal protective equipment (gowns,
masks, and gloves) and engineering controls (positive
pressure rooms, negative pressure rooms, laminar air
flow equipment, and various mechanical and structural
barriers). Dedicated isolation wards may be pre-built
into hospitals, or isolation units may be temporarily
designated in facilities in the midst of an epidemic
emergency. |
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Importance
Contagious diseases can spread to others through various
forms.
Four types of infectious disease transmission can occur: |
- contact transmission, which can be
through direct physical contact, indirect contact
through fomites, or droplet contact in which airborne
infections spread short distances
- vehicular transmission, which
involves contaminated objects
- airborne transmission, which
involves spread of infectious particles through air
- vector transmission, which is spread
through insects or animals. Depending on the contagious
disease, transmission can occur within a person's home,
school, worksite, health care facility, and other shared
spaces within the community.
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Self-isolation
Self-isolation or home isolation is the act of
voluntarily quarantining oneself to prevent infection of
oneself or others. The practice was used in the 2019–20
coronavirus pandemic.
Key features are: |
- staying at home
- separating oneself from other
people—for example, trying not to be in the same room as
other people at the same time
- asking friends, family members or
delivery services to carry out errands, such as getting
groceries, medicines or other shopping
- asking delivery drivers to leave
items outside for collection.
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30 Great activity ideas for kids
to do in self-isolation
There are plenty of activities kids can do if they need to
self-isolate.
Being away from school, group sports, friends and relatives
can be hard, but keeping yourself busy can help.
Here's some inside and outside activities you can do.
Outside |
- Gardening - do some weeding, plant
some seeds
- Find some flowers to arrange and put
in a vase; find leaves, flowers, sticks to make a
collage; find leaves to make leaf rubbings
- Treasure hunts or scavenger hunts
- Chalk drawing on pavements around
the house (if allowed)
- Make some shadow drawings outside
- Find some rocks to paint
- Time yourself running a circuit of
your backyard or around your house using a smart phone
timer or a clock. Try to beat your best time.
- Paint the windows using shaving
cream, similar to finger painting
- Clean the windows!
- Outdoor party games like egg and
spoon race or three legged races
- Have picnics in the yard
- Wash your parents car or wash your
bike/scooter/skateboard
- Make an obstacle course
- Make an outside fort or camp
- Make houses in the garden for
fairies
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Inside |
- Clean/rearrange your bedroom
- Make cubbies and forts inside using
cushions, sheets, couches and pillows
- Make some play doh
- Find some flowers to press inside
some books between baking paper
- Make stained glass windows using
different colored celophane
- Make your own board game
- Make some of your own greeting and
birthday cards to use later
- Make some origami animals
- Write a letter to a friend or
relative or even your teachers at school
- Make paper chains to put around the
room
- Make some paper planes. Have a
contest to see which plane travels the furthest
- Try some French knitting or finger
knitting or regular knitting
- Have a disco. String up Christmas
lights and turn off the lights to create some atmosphere
- Make a video diary each day of what
you're doing, send it to a relative or a friend
- Make a "play store" and use pantry
items to sell
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 Kiddle: Isolation
Wikipedia: Isolation |
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