“…( 9 – 11 ) These recommendations included the following: distribution and guidance on the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for health professionals and employees (N95 masks, gloves, protective aprons, face protection equipment, and caps), suspension of visits by family members and volunteers. In addition, suspension of sales at the institution's thrift store, respect for the physical and social isolation of residents with a 1.5m distance between beds, exchange of sofas for individual chairs, and sings in the cafeteria tables with safe distances, agglomerations in living environments were avoided, restriction of the exit of the elderly, except in cases of urgency and emergency (consultation or hospital), anticipation of the trivalent vaccine against Influenza virus to residents and collaborators, maintenance of airy environments with natural ventilation, distribution of cloth masks to residents, availability of alcohol gel, guidance to residents and collaborators on proper hand hygiene, cough etiquette, and respiratory hygiene, screening of collaborators, by means of temperature measurement and active questioning about symptoms, performed daily upon arrival for work, change of clothes and shoes upon arrival at the nursing home, before starting activities, use of clothes and shoes exclusive to the institution, implementation of a single entrance and exit for collaborators and another for suppliers and entry and exit of materials, adequate sanitation of products that would enter the institution, adequate and more frequent cleaning of the environments of the house, reservation of a pavilion for cases of suspected patients and another for cases of confirmed patients, application of quaternary ammonium in all environments of the institution, before the outbreak and again during the outbreak, ( 12 , 13 ) and availability of partnerships for psychological support to employees.…”