Type of Facility | Staff or Patients | Activity | Type of PPE or Procedure |
Healthcare Facilities | |||
Hospitals | |||
Hospital Room | Healthcare Workers | Direct care of patients infected with COVID – 19 | Medical mask Cloak or medical coat Gloves Eye protection (glasses or visor) |
Performance of procedures on COVID-19 infected patients that generate aerosols | Respiratory mask N95 or FFP2 standard, or equivalent. Cloak or coat Gloves Eye protection (glasses or visor) Apron | ||
Hygienists | Entering a room where there are patients infected with COVID-19 | Medical mask Cloak or coat Rubber work gloves Eye protection (if there is a risk of spraying organic material or chemicals) Boots or closed shoes for work | |
Visitors | Entering a room where there are patients infected with COVID-19 | Medical mask Cloak or coat Gloves | |
Other premises in which there is patients’ movement (e.g. wards, corridors) | All employees, including healthcare workers | Any activity that does not involve contact with COVID-infected patients | PPE is not needed |
Hospital Triage at the Entry | Healthcare Workers | Preliminary screening that does not involve direct contact | Maintaining a spatial distance of at least 1 meter PPE is not needed |
Patients with respiratory symptoms | Any type of activity | Maintaining a spatial distance of at least 1 meter Provide a medical mask if the patient can tolerate it | |
Patients without respiratory symptoms | Any type of activity | PPE is not needed | |
Laboratory | Laboratory Technician | Work with respiratory samples | Medical mask Cloak Gloves Eye protection (if there is a risk of spraying) |
Administrative Premises | All employees, including healthcare workers | Administrative tasks that do not involve contact with COVID-infected patients 19 | PPE is not needed |
Ambulances | |||
Examination room (ambulance) | Healthcare Workers | Physical examination of a patient with respiratory symptoms | Medical mask Cloak or coat Gloves Eye protection |
Healthcare Workers | Physical examination of a patient without respiratory symptoms | PPE in accordance with standard precautions and risk assessment measures | |
People with respiratory symptoms | Any type of activity | Putting on a medical mask if the patient can tolerate it | |
People without respiratory symptoms | Any type of activity | PPE is not needed | |
Hygienists | After and between examinations of patients with respiratory symptoms | Medical mask Cloak Rubber work gloves Eye protection (if there is a risk of spraying organic material or chemicals) Boots or closed shoes for work | |
Waiting Room | People with respiratory symptoms | Any type of activity | Provide a medical mask if the patient can tolerate it. Immediately move the patient to an isolated room or room separated from others; if this is not possible, maintain a spatial distance of at least 1 meter from other patients |
People without respiratory symptoms | Any type of activity | PPE is not needed | |
Administrative Premises | All employees, including healthcare workers | Administrative tasks | PPE is not needed |
Triage | Healthcare workers | Preliminary screening that does not involve direct contact | Maintaining a spatial distance of at least 1 meter PPE is not needed |
People with respiratory symptoms | Any type of activity | Maintaining a spatial distance of at least 1 meter Putting on a medical mask if the patient can tolerate it | |
People without respiratory symptoms | Any type of activity | PPE is not needed | |
Other Premises | |||
Home | People with respiratory symptoms | Any type of activity | Maintaining a spatial distance of at least 1 meter Putting on a medical mask if the patient can tolerate it, except when sleeping |
Caregiver | Entering a patient’s room without having direct contact or assistance | Medical mask | |
Caregiver | Direct care or handling of feces, urine or waste material from a patient infected with COVID-19 placed for home treatment | Medical mask Gloves Cloak (if there is a risk of spraying) | |
Healthcare workers | Providing direct care or assistance to a patient infected with COVID-19 who is being treated at home | Medical mask Cloak or coat Gloves Eye protection | |
Public space (e.g. schools, shopping malls, train stations). | People without respiratory symptoms | Any type of activity | PPE is not needed |
Points of Entry | |||
Administrative Premises | All workers | Any type of activity | PPE is not needed |
Screening Area | Workers | First screening (temperature check) not including direct contact | Maintaining a spatial distance of at least 1 meter PPE is not needed |
Workers | Second screening (e.g. interviewing fever patients to detect clinical symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 disease and travel history) | Medical Mask Gloves | |
Hygienists | Cleaning of rooms where screening of fever patients is performed | Medical mask Cloak or coat Rubber work gloves Eye protection (if there is a risk of spraying organic material or chemicals). Boots or closed shoes for work
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Rooms for Temporary Isolation | Workers | Entering the isolation premises, but without providing direct assistance | Maintaining a spatial distance of at least 1 meter Medical Mask Gloves |
Workers, healthcare workers | Assisting passengers during transport to a health facility | Medical mask Cloak or coat Gloves Eye protection | |
Hygienists | Cleaning the premises for isolation | Medical mask Cloak or coat Rubber work gloves Eye protection (if there is a risk of spraying organic material or chemicals). Boots or closed shoes for work | |
Ambulances or other means of transport | Healthcare Workers | Transportation of a patient suspected of being infected with COVID-19 to a reference health facility | Medical mask Cloak or coat Gloves Eye protection
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Driver | Involved only in transporting a patient suspected of being infected with COVID-19 and the driver area is separated from the patient suspected of being infected with COVID-19. | Maintaining a spatial distance of at least 1 meter PPE is not needed | |
Assisting during entry and exit of a vehicle of a patient suspected of being infected with COVID-19 | Medical mask Cloak or coat Gloves Eye protection | ||
Lack of direct contact with a patient suspected of being infected with COVID-19, but there is no separation of the driver area from the part intended for patients | Medical mask | ||
A patient suspected of being infected with COVID-19 | Transportation to the reference health institution | Putting on a medical mask if the patient can tolerate it | |
Hygienists | Cleaning after and between transport of patients suspected of being infected with COVID-19 to the reference health facility | Medical mask Cloak or coat Rubber work gloves Eye protection (if there is a risk of spraying organic material or chemicals). Boots or closed shoes for work |