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 At the reception of Create Media Group, employees can choose between
green bracelets, to show fist bumps are fine, yellow ones to
indicate they can chat without touching, and red bands to keep a
distance from others.
"Anybody can walk into the reception, they pick one of those bands
up and they put that on and it gives a very clear signal to anyone
else who is interacting with them on how close to get," said Tom
Otton, managing director at Create Media Group.
Individuals may have differing views on how to deal with COVID-19.
"In terms of personal choice... there is no easy way for people to
understand where someone is coming from," Otton said.
The United Arab Emirates has seen an "alarming" increase in the
number of coronavirus cases over the past three weeks, the health
ministry has said. The number of COVID-19 infections in the Gulf
state since the start of the pandemic has exceeded 67,000 with 376
deaths.
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The UAE could reintroduce an overnight curfew in areas of the country where
there are higher numbers of COVID-19 infections, a government official said on
Saturday.
At Create Media Group building, some employees are feeling comfortable about
resuming social life and work from offices, but others remain cautious.
"We work in the field of photography and we meet many people, and members of my
family at home are very old. I have to take all precautions," said Mohammed Abu
Youssef, the company's social media manager, pointing to his yellow band.
(Reporting by Abdelhadi Ramahi, editing by Ed Osmond)
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