The Ministry of Health and Community Protection announced that the national sterilization program for conducting complete sterilization for all facilities, public transport and metro service begins at eight o'clock yesterday evening and continues until six o'clock next Sunday morning, noting that 18 categories of workers in vital sectors are excluded from the obligation to stay At home during the program’s implementation period, provided that you carry business and identification cards. This came during the sixth media briefing held yesterday by the Ministry of Health and Community Protection in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior.
During the briefing, Dr. Farida Al Hosani, the official spokeswoman for the health sector in the UAE, stressed that the goal of the national sterilization program is to preserve the health of all residents of the country, including citizens and residents, noting that the choice of the weekend to implement the national sterilization program came to support the principle of social separation, Where it is known that this period will be devoted to family visits and social gatherings, which should be stopped in such circumstances, to be satisfied with social contact on the phone and smartphone chat applications, and to adhere to the precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the noob.
For his part, Brigadier Abdulaziz Abdullah Al-Ahmed, from the Ministry of Interior, stressed that throughout the period of implementation of the national sterilization program, traffic and public traffic will be restricted and public transportation will be stopped and the metro service, stressing the need for the public to adhere to stay at home, and not to go out except to buy food and drug needs or For health necessity.
Al-Ahmad outlined the groups excluded from workers in the vital sectors, which are available for movement during the implementation of the program, and include: workers in the energy sector, the telecommunications sector, the health sector, the education sector, the security sector, the police sector, the military sector, the postal sector, the shipping sector, and the pharmaceutical sector , The water and food sector, the civil aviation sector, the airports sector, the passports sector, the financial and banking sector, the government media sector, and the service sector, which includes gas stations and construction projects, through verification of business or identity cards.
He stressed that the work cards and identity cards of these people will be verified, and all legal measures will be taken against violators, which include severe fines and imprisonment for violators.