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No doubt you will groan to see this forum, our "nice space", infected by this topic, but I dont think its premature to raise it. I teach a group of older people, who are for that reason more vulnerable and in danger of dying if they catch the coronavirus. Moreover some have had chemotherapy relatively recently and so will have compromised immune systems, and others have lung problems. It now seems that there is community transmission of covid-19 from people who are asymptomatic, and who have not been exposed to people who have themselves been diagnosed, nor who have just returned from a high-risk country (China, Iran, etc). So we have to assume that it could be anywhere, even if the risk is still low. I want class members to be able to continue to come to class with confidence, and am therefore putting in place the following precautions: 1. No partner stretching and no other physical contact between class members. 2. Members asked to not come to class if they have a cold, and in particular if they are sneezing or coughing (droplets are a major way it is transmitted, and the symptoms could be due to covid-19). This also means that I will cancel classes if I have a cold. 3. Apart from that, we know the other main route of transmission is via touching contaminated surfaces, and then transferring the contamination to the eyes, nose or mouth. Class members reminded that once their hands have touched anything in communal spaces outside their home, they should treat their hands as "dirty" and keep them away from their faces in particular. I will have a hand sanitiser available* so people if they wish can resterilise their hands after handing over money at the start of class and before leaving (having touched things in the room, such as chairs). I think this will produce an almost clinical level of sterility! If they choose to hug and kiss each other (some do) then that is up to them. If anyone has any comments I'd be pleased to hear them, and maybe other people would like to consider using these guidelines. *Of course this is running out in the shops. There are formulae out there on how to make your own, but the ingredients have run out too. Jim.