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As far as cab rides for transportation are
concerned, avoid sharing a cab. If you have
no other choice but to share one, make
sure it has no more than two passengers,
you included. When you enter the vehicle,
ensure that the driver and your co-passenger
are wearing a mask and gloves. Avoid paying
with cash and make an online transaction
instead. Once you reach your destination,
wash your hands and face. Sanitise your bag,
phone or any other belonging that you were Avoid ordering food, eat at home to minimise contact and
carrying in your hands. ensure a healthy diet
At present, public means of local them in sunlight for 2-3 hours. In the case
transportation such as metros and local of fruits and vegetables, rinse and clean
trains are not in use, until the potential them in soap water followed by clean water
threat of the virus is not following us rinsing. Only after you have cleaned the food
everywhere into crowded places. items, place them in the refrigerator. Wash
Once these modes of commuting are back them once before consuming the fruit or
in use, let’s try maintaining social distance, vegetable as well.
which might be hard, considering the Avoid ordering food from outside. The
working population of the country. Keep restaurants and eateries will have to take
your face and hands covered at all times, certain measures to ensure clean sanitised
wear a protective layer over your clothes food stations and deliveries, but until
and dispose it as soon as you reach your minimum standards of sanitation are not
destination while also sanitising your set for these places, it would not be sensible
belongings. Or you could wear a raincoat to get food delivered. If you do order, make
over your work clothes and carry with you sure that they have clean cooking stations
a clean poly bag that you keep separately, and their staff is tested regularly, all of this
remove the coat once you reach your information is not easy to come by. Refrain
harbour and place it in the bag. Wear it again from ordering cold foods or salads. Order
on your back home. Once home, put it in food you can reheat easily. Again, if you
detergent water and let it dry in the sunlight. do order, get your food double-packed
Ready to be used again. and ask the delivery person to leave it at
your doorstep/gate and make an online
Goods delivery persons, Food delivery transaction.
services: if you have someone deliver goods
at your place, ask them to double-pack Workplace: Work from home was fun in
them and leave the items at your doorstep/ the beginning, now we haven’t come out of
society gate. Discard the outer packaging our jammies in a very long time. We’ll soon
either outside the house into a covered bin have to get out of our comfy home attire and
or immediately in your house before you change into our formal shirts and suits. But
put the bag on a surface. Take the items out what measures should you take once you’re
of the bag, if they are packaged goods, keep at work?
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