Dubai Civil Defense has accomplished sterilization 100% of the streets and roads in Dubai commissioned for sterilization, according to the Assistant Director General of Fire and Rescue Affairs, Brigadier Ali Hassan Al-Mutawa, who indicated that the work teams are currently practicing their efforts efficiently in sterilizing some facilities. Al-Mutawa told «Emirates Today» that the efforts will not stop at this stage, rather that the streets will be re-sterilized in areas with high human density and high traffic.
He added that the work teams worked efficiently and effectively as part of the work team formed by the Supreme Committee for Crisis and Disaster Management, and from the beginning dozens of major economic, service and residential sites with high population density in the day and night were sterilized, stressing that the response of the community members had an important role in providing the space For sterilization teams to perform their work quickly and flexibly.
He stressed that the decision to restrict movement around the clock contributed to the acceleration of sterilization, especially since the civil defense is using the most recent mechanisms and equipment designated for this purpose, as it helped the empty streets to play their role to the fullest.
Al-Mutawa appealed to members of the public to adhere to the restriction movement instructions, and to stay at home from 10 pm to six in the morning, because civil defense teams and their partners from the relevant authorities are spread throughout the emirate to implement their duties in sterilization operations during that period.
He pointed out that the civil defense teams visited the workers ’housing in the emirate to ensure the availability of conditions for prevention and safety from the threat of the new Corona virus, in addition to sterilizing those sites, and spreading preventive awareness among workers, developing posters to identify requirements for infection protection, and benefiting from these preventive measures More than 170 thousand workers are residents of these complexes.
The Civil Defense has also secured tents to inspect people inside the vehicles, to ensure that they are not infected with the disease, by means of a human and automatic force around the clock at these sites, and a division of the Civil Defense is always stationed to secure the largest hospital in the Middle East and the Gulf for those infected with the emerging coronavirus in the commercial center Global.
The administration was keen to provide a healthy and protective environment for its affiliates through the formation of a "epidemiological investigation team" to monitor the appearance of symptoms of infection in any of the affiliates.
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One thousand workers benefited from the preventive measures of Dubai Civil Defense.