The Punjab Government today issued the advisory on maintaining and ensuring the safety of food and other essential household items
Chandigarh, May 8: The Punjab Government today issued the advisory on maintaining and ensuring the safety of food and other essential household items during the COVID-19 pandemic.Giving details, an official spokesman of Health and Family Welfare department said here today that the Punjab Government has imposed severe restrictions on free movement of people in the larger public interest of controlling the spread/transmission of Corona virus.
File PhotoIn the general advisory the Punjab Government directs the shop-owner, delivery staff and customers to wear cloth masks at all the times. The mask should also be worn even if the purchase of groceries or collection of an order takes a fraction of time. The masks shall be worn in a manner that it snuggly covers the nose as well as the mouth. The cloth mask should be washed with soap and water daily after use.
The spokes man further said that the customers are advised not to indulge in any handshakes/hugs even with a known acquaintance. Similarly, the shop-owners/delivery staff should not handshake/hug amongst themselves or with anyone else. All are advised to follow strict social distancing measures and maintain a minimum distance of 1 metre amongst them at all times.
The customers and delivery staff are advised to strictly adhere to the social distancing circles or markings laid down by the shopkeepers outside their shop. All should wait patiently for their turn and avoid crowding at all costs he added.He said that all the shop-owners, customers and delivery staff should meticulously wash their hands using the foot-operated hand washing stations, if available.
File PhotoWash the hands is necessary with soap for at least 40 seconds by applying the soap gently on the palm and back of the hand including web spaces between the fingers and space between the finger and the thumb and the wrist wherever and whenever the opportunity to wash the hands is available. However, a two-hourly hand wash is recommended. All the customers and delivery staff is advised to sanitise their hands with the sanitizer bottles mounted at the entry point of the shop premises.
Alcohol-based sanitizer (minimum 70% ethyl alcohol v/v) should be mounted at the entrance wall of the shops for the shopkeeper and his/her workers as well as the customers to sanitize their hands before entering the premises further. The sanitizers are to be refilled/replaced frequently. Use a minimum of 3 ml of the sanitizer (approximately 2 pushes of sanitizer dispenser) on DRY HANDS for at least 30 seconds for good hygienic hand disinfection.
The shop-owners, customers and the delivery staff should not smoke or chew tobacco- based products such as gutka, pan masala etc. in the shop/marketplaces. In case of a cough/sneeze, the shopkeeper/customers/delivery staff should use the handkerchief to cover the face which shall then be kept in his/her own pocket/purse in a manner that the surface of the handkerchief exposed to the cough/sneeze shall not touch the other parts of the belongings directly.
In either case, the shopkeeper/customers/delivery staff should immediately hand wash with soap in the manner prescribed his hands/other exposed surfaces to cough/sneeze.The shopkeeper/customers/delivery staff should refrain from touching face, mouth, nose and eyes with his hands at all times.
