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MANILA - Filipinos tending to COVID-19 patients at home should prepare precautionary and disinfection procedures to avoid spreading the virus at home, a health professional said Friday as the government continues to push for home care programs for mild to moderate cases of the disease.A patient who is recuperating from COVID-19 at home should have a separate set of items, and if possible, his or her own comfort room, said former Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial, who now leads the Philippine Red Cross&#x27; biomolecular laboratories.&quot;If you bring things inside the [patient&#x27;s] room, it doesn&#x27;t go out any more until the patient is discharged,&quot; she said in an online forum.&quot;Make sure food containers are disposables. We have to make sure there is nothing that will expose other people to the virus,&quot; she said.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/11/21/pulse-oximeter-yes-oxygen-tank-optional-what-are-covid-19-home-care-essentials">Pulse oximeter yes, oxygen tank optional: What are COVID-19 home care essentials?</a></li></ul>A patient&#x27;s dirty clothes should be soaked in a bleach and water solution before it is washed, Ubial said.&quot;The laundry is potentially infectious... After 30 minutes [of being soaked in bleach solution], that laundry can be treated as regular laundry,&quot; she said.Should there be a lone bathroom in the house where a COVID-19 patient is staying, A &quot;clean as you go&quot; system should be done in households where a bathroom needs to be shared, she said.&quot;Wipe the floor with 0.5 percent Clorox or bleach solution,&quot; she said.Door knobs, toilet bowls, faucets, pails and dippers should also be disinfected with the same solution every time a COVID-19 patients uses a shared bathroom, she said.Once a stay-at-home COVID-19 patient recuperates from the virus and receives a negative test result, the room he or she used should be disinfected and vacated for at least 3 days, the former Health secretary said.&quot;It has to be exposed to room temperature and sunlight for 3 days before reusing it,&quot; she said.&quot;Close off the room for 3 days. Open the windows then that&#x27;s when you clean the floors and windows with Clorox, not immediately after [the discharge],&quot; she said.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/life/04/10/21/who-are-qualified-not-recommended-for-covid-19-home-care-expert-gives-dos-donts">Who are qualified, not recommended for COVID-19 home care? Expert gives do&#x27;s, don&#x27;ts</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/23/21/home-care-covid19-patients-challenging-rising-demand-lack-healthworkers-april232021">Home care for COVID-19 patients harder amid rising demand, lack of health workers</a></li></ul>Taking a cue from private hospitals, the Department of Health (DOH) earlier said it is developing COVID-19 home care kits that would be bundled with teleconsult packages to encourage patients with mild to moderate symptoms to recuperate at home as the Philippines&#x27; healthcare system remains challenged by the deluge of coronavirus patients in hospitals.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/26/21/ph-developing-covid-19-home-care-packages-to-decongest-hospitals">PH developing COVID-19 home care packages to decongest hospitals</a></li></ul>Earlier this month, several hospitals in the capital region sought help from the national government as intensive care units were &quot;almost 100 percent&quot; after a spike in new COVID-19 cases happened in March, a year since the virus was first detected in the Philippines.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/04/09/21/full-capacity-everywhere-manila-hospitals-struggle-as-virus-surges">&#x27;Full capacity everywhere&#x27;: Manila hospitals struggle as virus surges</a></li></ul><div>RELATED VIDEO</div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1656556" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

MANILA - Filipinos tending to COVID-19 patients at home should prepare precautionary and disinfection procedures to avoid spreading the virus at home, a health professional said Friday as the government continues to push for home care programs for mild to moderate cases of the disease

MANILA - Filipinos tending to COVID-19 patients at home should prepare precautionary and disinfection procedures to avoid spreading the virus at home, a health professional said Friday as the government continues to push for home care programs for mild to moderate cases of the disease