COVID-19: Dubai to fully re-open shopping malls from Wednesday

Merge 104.8  |  03 June 2020

Dubai will re-open its shopping malls completely from Wednesday [June 3], according to a statement released by the Dubai Media Office.

In the statement, which was issued online, the Emirate’s Supreme Committee of Crisis and Disaster Management has confirmed that all malls and private sector businesses willbe able to operate at 100 per cent capacity for the first time in more than two months.

Malls throughout the Dubai were closed, along with other commercial establishments, at the end of March to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, visitors must adhere to the UAE’s health and safety rules, including the requirement that masks are worn at all times, hands are sanitised on arrival to the mall, and a physical distance of two metres is maintained from others at all time.