Personal protective equipment needs be put on properly, and removed properly, in the right order. Here's a quick video, done from a health care perspective, that teaches exactly that.
Just doing commercial janitorial, we use gloves and often surgical masks, ongoing. In the many health care facilities we clean, we're a bit more paranoid, leaning toward eye protection or wrap around facemasks; likewise when addressing a biohazard clean-up (I hate those). And that's during normal times. When we're called upon to address disinfecting a facility that's experienced a COVID-19 incident, we don the full body suits, as much to protect my folks from the disinfectant (we use a hospital grate quaternary ammonia product) as from the critter we're targeting. In that case, knowing how to fully suit up and remove is vital; even if we're just doing gloves, or gloves and surgical masks, you still need to do the job correctly.
If memory service, the two nurses in Texas who caught the Ebola virus a few years ago, during that scare, were thought to have done so during disrobing. In "Darkest Africa", when exiting the infected ward, the procedure was to hose down the personnel with a carbolic acid solution prior to disrobing, so as to kill the critters before fooling with gloves or gown. Here, we're too sophisticated for all that, so we sometimes catch something.
In disrobing, the key is to not touch the potentially contaminated side of anything (and then wash your hands, like Mother told you, or maybe more so). That takes a bit more technique than one might imagine.
So, watch the video, and learn.
Stay safe!
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