What you need to know about "coronavirus".

STEP BY STEP REGISTRATION
Seniors can register for vaccinations in the following ways:

• electronically via the Online Patient Account,
• via the national hotline – 989,
• in NZOZ Your Doctor by calling 71 311 12 36 ext. "0".

DECLARATIONS OF WILLINGNESS TO RECEIVE THE VACCINE FOR PERSONS FROM 18 TO 69 YEARS OLD
People who have from 18 to 69 years old submit declarations of readiness to receive the vaccine on the website https://szczepimysie.pacjent.gov.pl/
Completing the form means that when vaccinations are extended to other age groups, people who have completed the declaration will be issued e-referrals for vaccination. Such e-referrals are the basis for registering at a vaccination point.

All information about vaccinations against the SARS-CoV-2 virus is available at: www.gov.pl/szczepimysie

You must show up at the appropriate vaccination point, on the designated day and time. You must have an identity document with you, preferably an ID card. On site, you fill out a questionnaire, which is the first stage of qualifying for vaccination.

It is worth familiarizing yourself with the questions in advance. They concern not only your current health condition, but also chronic diseases. Link to survey (please click)

Patients with a completed questionnaire undergo medical qualification. If the result is positive, they receive the vaccine administered in the arm, as an intramuscular injection. Fasting is not required for COVID-19 vaccination. The vaccine can be administered at any time of day.

For safety reasons, people who have been given the vaccine should remain under observation for 15 minutes. The appearance of sudden, undesirable symptoms should be reported immediately to the clinic staff. After receiving the vaccine, there are no special restrictions on eating, drinking or physical exertion. Before leaving the vaccination point, it is worth confirming the date of the second dose of the vaccine.

The patient can report to a paid clinic on his own. ANTIGEN TEST by registering on the website www.testprzesiewowy.pl. The SensDx technology test provides information within 15 minutes whether there is any active virus protein present in the swab. SARS-CoV2, which indicates the patient's infectiousness. The test is best performed 5-6 days after contact with an infected person or 2-3 days after the onset of infection symptoms. The test is of a screening nature, and its result is not a basis for intervention by sanitary and epidemiological services.

Diagnostic laboratories have the following available: SEROLOGICAL TESTS (IgG, IgM)which detect antibodies anti-SARS-CoV2This allows us to determine whether a person has had an infection. COVID-19. Venous blood tests performed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) or chemiluminescence immunoassays (CLIA) are currently considered the only reliable tests for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. World Health Organization (WHO) experts emphasize that they cannot be used as a method for detecting active cases of the disease. Antibodies appear relatively late, with peak levels occurring approximately 2.5-3 weeks after infection.

About the test result RT-PCR the primary care physician learns from the application www.gabinet.gov.pl and informs the patient by phone. The patient can read such information on his/her Individual Patient Account.

In the case of a person with a positive coronavirus test result the doctor makes a decision about HOME INSULATION.

The primary care physician, assessing the patient's health condition, decides on the duration of home isolation, its possible extension or termination.

ALL HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS ARE SUBJECT TO QUARANTINE FOR THE ENTIRE PERIOD OF HOME ISOLATION OF THE COVID-19 PERSON AND FOR 7 DAYS FROM THE DAY THE INFECTED PERSON WAS DECLARED HEALTHY. THESE PERSONS:

1. They cannot leave the house or go shopping.
2. They move around in rooms where the patient is not isolated or in their own home garden without contact with the patient or neighbours.
3. You should ask for help by phone/email (family, friends, or MOPS), the person delivering the necessary products should leave them at the door of your house/apartment and notify in an established manner so as not to contact you directly.

THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS APPLY DURING HOME ISOLATION:

1. Keep a self-observation diary of your health – measure your body temperature, measure your saturation if you have a pulse oximeter. A painless and non-invasive measurement that anyone can do on their own shows the degree of oxygen saturation in arterial blood. The norm of saturation in a healthy person is around 95 – 99% (in seniors 93 – 95%). If the saturation is lower than 90%, we are dealing with hypoxia and this requires urgent medical intervention.
   If you suffer from hypertension or diabetes, monitor your BP and glycemia levels.
2. Drink at least 1.5 liters of fluids a day, eat 3-4 easily digestible meals.
3. Stay (24/7) in one room where no other household members are present.
4. Other household members should NOT come closer than 2 metres from you.
5. You should NOT have contact with pets – they can transmit the virus to healthy people on their fur that you touch.
6. If another person enters the room you are in, they should wear a mask over their mouth and nose.
7. DO NOT take things out of the room you are using.
8. DO NOT enter other rooms, especially if someone is there.
9. If there is a shared toilet/bathroom in the apartment, use it separately, preferably as the last household member, wash the devices you use after yourself, disinfect the toilet with household products, wash your hands thoroughly before leaving. Use only your own towels, hang them in a different place than the towels of other household members. Keep toiletries, e.g. a toothbrush, in the room where you are isolating.
10. Open the window often, air the room. If you have to leave the room, e.g. to the bathroom, put on a mask over your mouth and nose.
11. DO NOT use fans, air conditioning, or air purifiers.
12. Change bed linen and pajamas every 2 days, and towels daily.
13. Place used bedding, towels, and dirty clothes in a plastic bag in the room, and when it is full, hang it outside the door so someone else can do the laundry.
14. Throw your trash in a plastic bag (ask for an empty bag to be hung on the doorknob) and when it is full, hang it outside the door so someone else can throw it in the trash.
15. Use separate cutlery, plates, cups, glasses.
16. Consume prepared meals, water, and medications in isolation, and ask for them to be delivered to your door.
17. Put dirty dishes outside the room door so that someone else can wash them in a dishwasher at a minimum temperature of 60⁰C using detergent or by hand using dishwashing liquid and hot water. After washing dishes, the person washing them must wash their hands with soap and water.

HOW TO CLEAN IN AN APARTMENT WHERE ONE (TWO SICK) PERSON IS ISOLATED AND THE REST ARE HEALTHY?

• Disinfect several times a day by wiping with wipes soaked in disinfectant: – door handles, table tops, fridge handles, cabinets, kettle handles, bathroom fittings, toilets and toilet handles, telephones, keyboards, TV remote controls, tablets, bedside tables, light switches – disinfect with rubber gloves.
  DO NOT wipe excess disinfectant from surfaces.
• Washing clothes and bedding: – wash items in a separate load, without the clothes of other household members, – pour clothes into the washing machine directly from the bag, without touching them, – wash clothes and bedding at the highest temperature allowed for washed fabrics, but not lower than 60 degrees C, using detergent, for at least 40 minutes. – use clothes that can be washed at 60⁰C – wash or disinfect your hands after loading the washing machine.
  DO NOT send items to dry cleaners.
• Taking out the trash – the person taking out the trash from your house/apartment takes the bag from the door of the room wearing rubber gloves, wraps it in a second bag, throws it in the trash. After taking off the gloves, throws them away, washes or disinfects their hands.

Home isolation imposes special responsibility on the people subjected to it. Patients with a positive test result SARS-CoV-2 must make every effort to limit the risk of infecting other people in their environment. Due to the possibility of endangering the health and lives of other people, disregarding sanitary regulations is subject to criminal and administrative liability. According to Article 165 of the Penal Code, the crime of "bringing danger to the life or health of many people by causing an epidemiological threat or the spread of an infectious disease" faces up to 8 years of imprisonment. People who violate the regulations on home isolation or quarantine may also be punished by the sanitary inspector with an administrative penalty of up to PLN 30,000.