Symptoms of CORONAVIRUS infection
The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, dry cough, shortness of breath and fatigue. Some patients also experience muscle pain, runny nose, sore throat and diarrhea. Some of the infected patients do not show any symptoms.
In more serious cases, COVID-19 develops severe pneumonia, acute respiratory syndrome, sepsis and septic shock, which can lead to a patient’s death.
The incubation period is the time between "catching" the virus and the onset of disease symptoms. The World Health Organization (WHO) informs that for COVID-19 it is between 1 and 14 days, and that is why people who may have been infected with it are subjected to the quarantine of 14 days. However, most often the symptoms appear after 5 days
From March 15, after returning to Poland you are obliged to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine.
Recommendations during the CORONAVIRUS epidemic
These are the rules to follow to minimise the risk of infection:
- frequently wash your hands with soap and water or (if necessary) disinfect them with an alcohol-based agent
- keep a safe distance from your interlocutor (1-1.5 meters)
- avoid large crowds of people
- pay attention to hygiene of the places where meals are prepared
- do not share food, e.g. crisps from one packet.
Wearing protective masks by healthy people is not recommended.
Washing our hands will not guarantee that we will not get sick. But it is one of the recommended ways to protect against potential contact with coronavirus.
What to do if you suspect that you have CORONAVIRUS infection?
If you have observed the symptoms described above or if you have been to the countries from the risk list (current list of countries available at: www.who.int, www.ecdc.europa.eu, www.gis.gov.pl) within the last 14 days, immediately notify the sanitary-epidemiological station BY TELEPHONE or go directly to the infectious diseases ward or ward for communicable diseases and observation where further medical procedure will be determined. Do not use public transport so as not to infect others.
Do not go to the outpatient clinic or the Hospital Emergency Ward! You could infect others there!
Sanitary and Epidemiological Stations in Łódź:
at ul. Wodna 40, 90-046 Łódź, tel. 42 253 62 00
at ul. Stanisława Przybyszewskiego 10, 93-189 Łódź, tel. 42 253 99 00, the phone number after hours: 600 241 646, 570 204 085, 881 565 393
Infectious diseases hospitals in the Łódź Voivodeship:
Radomsko: Szpital Powiatowy [District Hospital], ul. Jagiellońska 36, tel.: 44 6810822 Bełchatów: Szpital Wojewódzki [Regional Hospital] im. Jana Pawła II, ul. Czapliniecka 123, tel.: 44 6358555 Tomaszów Mazowiecki: Tomaszowskie Centrum Zdrowia [Tomaszów Health Centre], ul. Jana Pawła II 35, tel.: 44 7257134 Łódź: Wojewódzki Specjalistyczny Szpital [Regional Specialist Hospital] im. dr Wł. Biegańskiego, ul. Kniaziewicza 1/5, tel.: 42 2516051
The Ministry of Health has launched a helpline 800 190 590 to deal with cases of suspected coronavirus infections.
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