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Most of us will be aware by now of the guidelines on preventing infection, but what should you do if you believe you may have contracted the Covid-19 Coronavirus? Jeremy Kenton has the latest on what are the next steps to take...whether you're in or outside of Spain.
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obviously with the coronavirus people
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are panicking first of all there's no
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need to panic you've got to look at the
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fact that the number of cases even
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though 80 European countries are now
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affected is actually very small by
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comparison with the overall population
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but what do you need to do if you think
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you may have been infected by the corona
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virus well first of all as I say don't
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panic it's very difficult in the early
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stages to differentiate whether or not
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you've just got normal flu which is
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still very very common at this time of
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year or you actually may have the corona
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virus for a start look at the facts the
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majority of cases for people under the
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age of 65 are that it will just be like
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a very bad flu and you have absolutely
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nothing to worry about and you will
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recover for those of you who are over 65
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for those of you who've had problems
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with your lungs or you may have heart
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problems or if you've had
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immunosuppressants for a variety of
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reasons then obviously it's extremely
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important that you take care of yourself
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but what do you do if you've been
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traveling to a high-risk country and
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obviously the main ones at the moment
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are mainland China South Korea Italy
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those you have to be sensible about and
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if you've travelled there in the last 14
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to 21 days remember that it takes up to
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14 days for the symptoms to show so what
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do you do first of all stay at home
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don't go and see your doctor don't go to
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the hospital don't travel around but
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self quarantine self isolates so that
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you're not infecting other people and
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that really is very very important and
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if you do feel that you're at risk even
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if you're not showing any symptoms then
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it's important that you phone the local
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Health Authority now here in Spain that
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number is zero six one for those of you
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in the UK firm the national health
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advice line which is specific and for
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those of you who may be traveling back
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to your own countries it's very easy to
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find the advice numbers that are there
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so you're at home your symptoms are
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getting worse you'll find that somebody
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will come to visit you if you do have to
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self isolates and self quarantine
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remember that your symptoms may just be
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normal flu and you really have got
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nothing to worry about so in the event
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of this you've got to think in terms of
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what may happen now the symptoms
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normally begin very much like normal flu
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with a sore throat headache a raise in
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temperature and a cough and the way that
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the corona virus CoV d-19 is actually
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happening is is affecting the lower part
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of the lung and that's why if you have a
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history of lung problems it's important
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you notify your doctor even if it says
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normal flu anyway but the main point is
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that you stay at home now those of you
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who've been in contact with others who
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have traveled are also potentially at
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risk because often the condition is
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spread by people who are asymptomatic
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than what that means is that they aren't
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actually exhibiting any symptoms yet so
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the other factor to remember is that
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research in the last week has shown that
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there are not two strains of the corona
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virus what is known as El which is the
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original one that started in China and
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the one that's now affecting Europeans
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which is Type S they're very similar
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they are no difference in terms of the
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kind of symptoms they're just showing
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slightly differently under a microscope
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but the point is you must not panic and
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it's very important that you stay at
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home and self quarantine
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you
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