Dubai Health Authority has set 10 precautionary measures to prevent corona virus, while shopping, stressing not to go out of the house except for the purchase of basic supplies, and to observe all precautionary measures followed for a safe exit from the home.

The head of the Health Education and Promotion Department in Dubai Health Authority Dr. Hind Al-Awadi told «Emirates Today» that there are 10 precautionary measures that must be followed to ensure safe shopping from infection with a virus represented in «choosing the right time to shop and avoid peak times and crowding, not to enter the store if it is crowded, a necessity Sterilize the shopping cart, the frequently used baskets and the hand, and maintain the physical distance anywhere between two meters between you and other customers, employees and accountants at the end of the purchase.

Al-Awadi also called for the need to be patient and remain within the role to access goods in refrigerators, freezers, vegetable pallets and shelves, and each individual to shop alone to reduce the number of people inside the store, and thus achieve the required physical spacing, and avoid hysteria of purchase, and everyone has to purchase essential necessities and basic needs only .

She continued: «It is necessary to use electronic delivery services wherever possible, and to avoid trading in banknotes and replace them with a credit card with sterilized hands and hands after payment, and when completing the purchase and reaching the home it is necessary to take out the purchases from the bags, get rid of them, sterilize all purchases and then wash the hand well».