Prevention measures to avoid COVID-19 spreading by: from the everyday to the technical-scientific actions

e202104051

Authors

  • José Miguel Romero-Saritama Sección de Biología y Genética. Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas. Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja. Ecuador.
  • Janneth Simaluiza Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud. Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja. Ecuador.
  • Heriberto Fernandez Instituto de Microbiologia Clínica. Facultad de Medicina. Universidad Austral de Chile. Chile.

Keywords:

COVID-19, Anti-contagion barriers, Respiratory disease, Transmission mechanisms, Prevention, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2, Viruses

Abstract

Background: In the attempt to reactivate the economy after several months of the pandemic generated by COVID-19, several South American countries have been forced to attenuate the restriction measures created to prevent contagion, leaving all the responsibility to citizens to safeguard their lives. Faced with this situation, the objective of the work was to promote good prevention practices against COVID-19 in the general population to avoid the collapse of the public health system.
Methods: An exploratory review on prevention measures against COVID-19 was carried out in the databases Elsevier, Pubmed, Wiley, Scopus, Scielo and, in general, in academic Google, to obtain gray information.
Results: The role of seven individual protection and prevention measures and barriers to stop the advance of community infections by COVID-19 were described and analyzed. Studies showed that the use of preventive measures can play a critical role in containing the pandemic. However, they can also provide a false security of protection, predisposing to neglect the correct use and handling of all containment measures.
Conclusions: Given the drastic rise in infections and deaths from COVID-19 in Latin America, it becomes necessary to continue with biosecurity campaigns so that citizens are clear that prevention is an integrated process and that the use of one measure does not replace another.

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Published

2021-04-09

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Romero-Saritama JM, Simaluiza J, Fernandez H. Prevention measures to avoid COVID-19 spreading by: from the everyday to the technical-scientific actions: e202104051. Rev Esp Salud Pública [Internet]. 2021 Apr. 9 [cited 2024 Nov. 5];95:14 páginas. Available from: https://ojs.sanidad.gob.es/index.php/resp/article/view/651