Condominium Living & Safe Practices Amidst Covid-19

With the ongoing Covid-19 health crisis and the increase in infected individual with the disease, many apartment and condo buildings have been seen increasing their cleaning efforts to minimize the spread of coronavirus especially in residential building. Living in an apartment or condo building with hundreds to thousands of people living there can be scary amidst the health crisis. With too many contact touch points people use and can easily get contaminated with.

In the last few weeks, apartments and condominiums have installed hand sanitizers in common areas, prepared foot baths for people coming in from the outside, prohibited visitors, or had passed a memo or posted precationary measures in their lobbies advising tenants to take extra precautions like washing hands, social distancing and self or home quarantine for 14 days if they aren’t feeling well. 

Here are some practices and security measures you can also practice to prevent yourself from being infected with Covid-19 when you’re living in an apartment or condominiums:

• Practice social and physical distancing when you leave your home.
• Elevators are closed and sometimes tight spaces. Allow a maximum of two or three people in the elevator. If you can use the stairs, choose it over using the elevators or you can wait for the next elevator if there are more than three people inside.
• There are contact touch points like doorknobs, elevator buttons, or mailbox handles that you can’t help but touch or use. Bring paper towels and use it to touch these common touch points and discard the paper towel after use.  
• Avoid going out of your homes when you do not have any reason to. The safest place is still in the comforts of your homes and not in common spaces. Some condominiums have closed off common areas like gyms, swimming pools and play area and a bit lenient to common space use. It is still best not to gather in crowds in common spaces.
• Leave your shoes and jackets in the entry way or a designated space near your door along with the things you brought from outside. Wash you hands before touching anything in your home. Go directly to your bathroom to take off your clothes and place in the laundry hamper and take a bath.

These are a few basic precautions that you can practice to prevent the spread of the virus or to get infected by it.