The Meghalaya Health and Family Welfare Department vide its notification dated 1st June 2020 has issued health protocols for the shopkeepers to follow in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The protocol makes it mandatory for all shop owners including staff to wear masks in a correct manner, follow social distancing and ensure that all customers who come to their shops follow the same guidelines. Further standalone shops shall provide hand sanitizers at the entrance and the shopkeeper shall ensure that there is minimum 1-2 meter distance among the customers as well as staffs and not more than five persons shall be allowed inside the shop at a time.
Further, the shop keeper shall ensure that customer sanitize their hands before touching items that needs to be checked (e.g. optical frames in optical shops which also needs to be disinfected after each touching by customers before they are placed back) and frequent sanitization of shops especially points that frequently come into people’s contact like doorknobs, etc.
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