Dubai Municipality has allowed malls to bring back the seats that had been ordered to be removed or closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 since April 2020.
Event Location
Dubai , Dubai
Start Time
10 January 2021, 12:00 AM
End Time
31 January 2021, 12:00 AM
You can now use public seats in Dubai malls. This Dubai Municipality move is widely welcomed by the elderly, pregnant women and others
Public seats, that are a big solace to those who need a break while wandering through the sprawling malls in Dubai, can now be used by the mall visitors.
The decision has been circulated to the mall managements after the civic body updated the reopening protocols that are effective from January 1, 2021.
Waiting benches, chairs and other public seating arrangements in shopping centres and malls were either removed or marked as prohibited to be used after the initial protocol was announced. Though malls and shopping centres were allowed to reopen with 100 per cent capacity since June 3, the public seating facilities had remained prohibited.
Dr. Naseem Mohammed Rafee, director of Health and Safety Department at Dubai Municipality, confirmed that, “Public seating was prohibited in the previous circular about the precautionary measures to be followed by the malls. It has now been removed from the updated precautionary measures for reopening.”
“A separate notification in this regard is being sent directly to all those in charge of malls and shopping centres in Dubai,” she added.
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