Nucleic acid testing can detect infected people as soon as possible and is an important means of epidemic prevention and control. In addition to the precautions before, during and after nucleic acid detection and sampling that have been reminded many times, there are also many small partners who also express doubts:
Should I throw away my mask after doing the nucleic acid test? How to throw, where to throw?
In addition, during the epidemic prevention and control period, wearing masks and disinfection are the most commonly used protective measures.
So what about masks, gloves, empty alcohol bottles, and disinfectant bottles after use?
Before going to the nucleic acid test, it is recommended to prepare a spare mask. When the nucleic acid test queue must be correctly worn mask, when sampling, when the staff is ready to hand hygiene take out the sampling cotton swab ready to sample, you can remove the mask, hold the mask ear strap with both hands, and immediately after the sampling is over, wear the mask and leave. When the mask is found to be contaminated, it is recommended to immediately replace the spare mask and throw the replaced mask into the "waste mask special bucket" set up at the sampling point.
If you do not bring a spare mask, the mask taken off after returning home is recommended not to be used twice, and it needs to be sealed or disinfected and thrown into the "waste mask special bucket" set up by the community or put into a plastic bag to seal and discarded into other garbage collection containers.
Used masks cannot be thrown away!
What should I do?
According to the "Guidelines for the Use of Pneumonia Masks for the Prevention of Novel Coronavirus Infection" issued by the State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism (Epidemic Prevention and Control Group) for the Prevention of The Novel Coronavirus Infection, the treatment principles of masks after use are divided into two categories:
Masks after use by healthy people are disposed of in accordance with the requirements of domestic garbage classification;
Masks worn by suspected cases or confirmed patients should not be discarded at will, but should be regarded as medical waste and disposed of in strict accordance with the relevant procedures of medical waste.
How to effectively dispose of used masks? A picture to understand:
Key points: During the epidemic prevention and control period, many communities and units have set up waste mask recycling bins, and for ordinary citizens, used masks can be directly thrown into other garbage collection containers. For citizens who have fever, cough, sputum, sneezing, or have been exposed to such people, they should first spray alcohol or disinfectant on the mask to kill the band, and then throw it into other garbage collection containers.
In addition to masks,
What other waste epidemic prevention supplies are sorted
Be careful?
Paper towels, wipes, and household disposable gloves are other garbage and can be discarded directly.
Empty alcohol bottles, empty disinfectant bottles, and empty hand sanitizer bottles that are not contaminated are recyclable garbage, and can be directly discarded after the bottle body is rinsed, wiped and killed. However, it must be noted that there must be no residual liquid in the bottle.
During the epidemic, the express box should be eliminated and sealed, and then placed in other garbage collection containers. The domestic garbage generated by the yellow code personnel should be put into a special collection container and handled by special property personnel.
Epidemic prevention and control is not only anti-virus, but also anti-secondary pollution. I hope that everyone will carefully classify and dispose of garbage and strictly prevent and control it.
Epidemic prevention and control needs to be strictly prevented and controlled!
Source丨Jiangsu Disease Control
Editor 丨 Wang Yimeng
Responsible editor 丨 Jiao Bin
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