The Abu Dhabi Authority for Agriculture and Food Safety has warned families not to deal directly with children with home delivery service workers, or to accompany them while receiving orders. It also advised consumers to avoid exchanging cash with delivery workers as much as possible, by preparing the actual value of the product purchase invoice in advance.
The Authority continued its electronic guiding campaign, on its official accounts on social media, to educate consumers about ways to prevent the "COFED-19" pandemic of the new Corona virus when dealing with foodstuffs, whether by purchasing or receiving it from a delivery service representative, or ways to cook it in a way security. She called on consumers, who prefer to buy their nutritional needs themselves, to make sure to prepare a pre-list of purchases before going to the store, and try to adhere to them, as they help to protect the consumer from random purchase, and ensure the completion of the shopping process quickly, and resist tempting offers.
She stressed the importance of consumers' commitment to a number of preventive measures during shopping, most notably not to accompany children and the elderly, and to leave a safe distance of no less than two meters between people when waiting in the queue, or when dealing with the receiving window, wearing gloves to avoid touching contaminated surfaces, and using services Online payment, or mobile payment. Preventive measures included the need to pass the money in a manner that avoids the consumer touching the hands directly with the salesman, and making sure to take off the shoes outside the house after returning from shopping, to reduce the risk of transmission to the home, and finally washing hands for at least 20 seconds. The authority advised to continue to give preference to electronic shopping operations under the current circumstances, as it is an effective practice to enhance the level of prevention and reduce the chances of transmission.