Learning outcomes
By the end of the Coronavirus and Pandemic Awareness course you will have learned about:
- Description of the Coronavirus
- Proportionate measures
- How to stay safe – Hygiene advice
- Facts or fiction
- Symptoms
- What to do if you feel unwell
- Covid-19 advice
- Bulk buying – Fact or fiction
- Self-isolation advice
- Touching your face – fact or fiction
- The difference between an endemic, epidemic and pandemic
- Recent pandemics
- High risk groups
- Introduction to viruses
- Transmission
- Transmission from hard surfaces
- Handwashing
- Hygiene advice
- Flu vaccinations
- Treating symptoms
- Self-isolation
- Face masks advice
- The chain of infection
- Controls
- Incubation and infection
- Sources of information