IMPORTANT PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN AT THE SHOPPING MALL BY THE VISITORS

The massive outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic across the world has put the entire global community into disarray. In the early days of its eruption, it caught the world by surprise resulting in astonishingly rapid spread in the communities across world. However, most of the countries adopted to the recourse of lockdown in order to avoid crowd or massive gatherings at public places, theatres, malls and community. All of us have experienced the intense lockdown and step by step relaxation given by the government, in order to allow restoration of normalcy. So let's not dwell too much on these aspects.

Now that the government has allowed opening of shopping malls people will make heavy rush at the mall and perhaps go mad at shopping. But it should be noted that the permission to open the malls is given on certain conditions pertaining to maintaining social distancing and health / hygiene to be maintained at the mall. While the mall authorities will do their duties in this regard, it is in the interest of visitors to take following precautions while they are visiting the shopping mall.

• Visitors should maintain proper social distance in the shopping mall and should not make unnecessary crowd at the POS (point of sale).
• Visitors should wear masks throughout their presence at the mall.
• Visitors should cooperate the staff for maintaining good hygiene and social distance in the mall.
• On arrival at the mall, visitors should get their body temperature checked from the security personnel deployed at the main entrance.
• Those with fever or having respiratory trouble should avoid visiting the mall in order to avoid public contact.
• Visitors should use hand sanitizers placed at the entrance and clean their hands properly.
• Visitors should avoid unnecessary handling of the goods / commodities and should only touch or handle those things which they want to buy.
• If the visitors are spending considerably long time at the mall, they should use hand sanitizer placed at different locations inside the mall in order to keep their hands clean.
• Visitors should avoid use of public toilet at the mall, as far as possible. In case of emergency if they are required to use the washroom facility, they should use it decently and properly and help the mall management to keep it clean.
• In case the visitors notice that there are no adequate measures in the mall in respect of cleanliness, sanitization etc., they should immediately bring it to the notice of the management.