IAM promotes continued cleaning of public spaces to prevent rebound outbreak

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) has announced that it will continue to promote the cleaning and disinfection of public spaces to prevent a rebound Covid-19 outbreak.

The bureau announced in a press statement that, since the outbreak of the coronavirus in mid-June, it has deployed additional personnel and street-cleaning vehicles to clean sidewalks and roads using diluted bleach and high-pressure water jets.

Additionally, IAM staff were also deployed to wipe the handrails of ax escalators, bus stop shelters, bus stop signs, parking meters and other public facilities.

Public drains, sidewalk handrails and railings were also sprayed with disinfectant.

The IAM says that this work “will be continuously carried out in the context of the normalization of pandemic prevention.”

Furthermore, IAM is also calling on the population, namely those living in buildings that have been previously classified as red zones of confinement, to continue with thorough cleaning of the buildings’ common areas.

The IAM directed this message especially to residents of low-rise buildings that have no condominium management staff and do not receive frequent cleanings from contracted workers.

The first phase of this “anti-pandemic community cleaning campaign” starts today, with IAM stating that it will carry out targeted hygienic screenings of low-rise buildings as well as precautionary cleaning and disinfection of building clusters in the northern district with high population density and unsatisfactory hygienic conditions.

The bureau hopes to start the second phase of the cleaning campaign in September, running until December. In this second phase, IAM advised that it would count on the help of several civil associations to carry out anti-pandemic community cleaning activities.