Turkmenistan introduces new measures to prevent spread of COVID-19 amid WHO mission visit

AKIPRESS.COM - The public places have been disinfected, in particular public transport stops. Sanitizers are being offered to customers upon entrances to shopping malls, Chronicles of Turkmenistanreports. City buses are being disinfected with chlorine at final stops before a bus goes on the next run.
?ashiers in Ashgabat supermarkets are working in medical masks and gloves. Drivers of city buses, pharmacists and emergency paramedics are also wearing personal protective equipment.
Upon entrances to hospitals people get their temperatures taken and are requested to put on shoe covers.
Reportedly, the general practitioners go door to door in the neighborhood assigned to them to distribute 10 pills of Rimantadine to residents. Elderly people are requested not to leave their houses unless necessary.
The WHO delegation, consisting of five people, arrived to the country with Türkmenhowaýollary (Turkmenistan Airlines) charter flight from Frankfurt on July 7. The WHO experts plan to visit healthcare facilities, public health centers, laboratories, emergency centers and other facilities at the national, regional, and city levels.