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In a live press briefing Dubai authorities answered media questions in a live briefing:
Abdul Hamid Ahmad, Editor in Chief of Gulf News posed the following questions:
What is being done to help labourers and address their issues during this COVID-19 outbreak?
Lt General Abdullah Khalifa Al Merri, Commander-In-Chief at Dubai police answered, saying: “We established points in labour camps to educate labours and advised them to wear masks, gloves and keeping safe distance especially when they are inside buses. Their areas were sanitised in cooperation with Dubai Municipality and Civil Defence.”
There is a lot of false information with regards to recovery times. Some claim it to be less than a week; what is an average recovery time?
The recovery time is dependant on each individual and their health status. It could range from a week to 30 days.
“The recovery from the virus will take between seven to 30 days depends on the situation of the patient. The sterlisation programme aims to prevent spread of COVID-19. It will have a positive results.” said Humaid Al Qutami, Chairman of the Board and Director General of the Dubai Health Authority (DHA),
In answers to other questions, the following details were announced:
Sterilisation programme
– Sterilisation will end in a week but it will be reviewed and can be extended from time to time.
Naif area
– “The situation in Naif area is stable now after we conducted precautionary measures in the area. We focused to clean and clear the area of infection. We tried to be close to the people and educate them accordingly, as people in Dubai come from different cultures. – Lt General Abdullah Khalifa Al Merri, Commander-In-Chief of Dubai police.
When life will be back to normal in Dubai?
– It is a global situation, and not only in the country. We are working on the federal level to estimate and study our procedures and checking the results. We hope physical distancing [social distancing] will reduce number of cases and if God wills, life will be back to normal soon.” – Lt General Abdullah Khalifa Al Merri, Commander-In-Chief of Dubai police
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