What is personal hygiene? Good personal hygiene is one of the best ways to protect yourself from getting gastro or infectious diseases such as COVID-19, colds and flu. Washing your hands with soap removes germs that can make you ill. Maintaining good personal hygiene will also help prevent you from spreading diseases to other people. Personal hygiene includes: cleaning your body every day washing your hands with soap after going to the toilet brushing your teeth twice a day covering your mouth and nose with a tissue (or your sleeve) when sneezing or coughing washing your hands after handling pets and other animals To slow the spread of COVID-19, you should: wash your hands often with soap and water or alcohol-based hand sanitisers avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth clean and disinfect surfaces you use often such as benchtops, desks and doorknobs clean and disinfect objects you use often such as mobile phones, keys, wallets and work passes increase the amount of fresh air by...
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