Just received this for the administrators responsible for day to day management of our apartment block:
Recommendations from Collegiate Property Managers for buildings
affected by coronavirus
Given the doubts that arose regarding the way to act in cases where infections occur in
a building, we summarize the recommendations of the health authorities
CLEANING AND DISINFECTION
Carry out cleaning and disinfection of the surfaces with which the patient and / or their
secretions have been in contact. Cleaning and disinfection will be done with a
disinfectant. According to the Ministry of Health, these viruses are inactivated after 5
minutes of contact with disinfectants for general normal use, such as bleach or with a
sodium hypochlorite solution. A sodium hypochlorite solution containing 1000ppm. of
active chlorine-dilution 1:50 of bleach with concentration 40-50 gr. per liter freshly
prepared.
Cleaning staff will use appropriate individual protective equipment depending on the
level of risk considered in each situation. Some must be carried out by people who care
for the patient, and those that affect common areas will be carried out by the building's
cleaning services.
MANAGEMENT OF DOMESTIC WASTE
The disposable material used by the sick person and their caregivers - gloves, masks,
tissue paper - the individual protective equipment of the health personnel - except
glasses and masks - and any other patient residue, must be disposed of in the rubbish
can arranged in the room, preferably with lid and opening pedal. The plastic bag where
it is deposited must have a hermetic seal and must be closed before being removed from
the room.
The mask and glasses must be removed outside the patient's room, where there will be
also a container for this purpose, with similar characteristics to those described above
and with a hermetically sealed plastic bag. After each deposit of waste in these bags -
bag 1-, they must be closed and discarded as indicated above.