Learn more on how to keeping yourself and others safe from COVID-19
Follow these simple steps to give your storage to rent or rent out space safely.
- Maintain at least a metre and a half distance between yourself and others to reduce your risk of infection. Keep an even greater distance between yourself and others when indoors.
- Make wearing a mask a normal part of being around other people. The appropriate use, storage and cleaning of masks are essential to make them as effective as possible.
To make sure your mask protects you at all times do the following:
- Clean your hands before you put the mask on, as well as before and after you take it off, and after you touch it at any time.
- Make sure it covers both your nose and mouth.
- When taking the mask off, store it in a clean plastic bag, and wash the fabric mask or dispose the medical mask daily.
Keep your environment safer
- Avoid closed and crowded spaces that involve close contact. The highest risk of infecting has been reported in places where people gather in crowded indoor settings. Limit or avoid visiting such places.
- While meeting indoors choose the spaces that are properly ventilated. The risks of infecting are higher in inadequately ventilated spaces where people spend long periods of time together in close proximity.
- Meet people outside. Outdoor gatherings are safer than indoor ones, particularly if indoor spaces are small and without outdoor air coming in.
Good hygiene first
- Regularly and thoroughly clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water. This eliminates germs including viruses that may be on your hands.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. Hands touch many surfaces and can pick up viruses. Once contaminated, hands can transfer the virus to your eyes, nose or mouth. From there, the virus can enter your body and infect you.
- Cover your mouth and nose with your bent elbow or tissue when you cough or sneeze. Then dispose of the used tissue immediately into a closed bin and wash your hands.
- Clean and disinfect surfaces frequently especially those which are regularly touched, such as door handles, faucets and phone screens.
- Get informed about the full range of COVID-19 symptoms. The most common are fever, dry cough, and tiredness. Other symptoms that are less common include loss of taste or smell, aches and pains, headache, sore throat, nasal congestion, red eyes, diarrhoea, or a skin rash.
- Stay home and self-isolate even if you have minor symptoms until full recovery. Call your doctor or hotline for advice. Have someone bring you supplies. If you need to leave your house, wear a medical mask to avoid spreading the disease.
- If you have a fever, cough and difficulty breathing, seek medical attention immediately. Call your doctor or the health authority hotline at 1800-333-9999 and follow the directions.
- Keep up to date on the latest information from trusted sources, such as the health authorities. Local and national authorities and public health units are best placed to advise on protective measures.
- Use reliable sources of information on the latest situation with COVID-19 spread. For more information on the COVID-19 situation in Singapore, vaccination programme and additional security measures visit the Ministry of Health website (https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19) and Singapore Government Agency website (https://www.gov.sg/features/covid-19).