Al Dhafra completes COVID-19 screening and testing campaign

Monday, 29 June 2020 19:08

A comprehensive screening and testing campaign for COVID-19 has successfully concluded in Al Dhafra.

According to the Department of Health Abu Dhabi (DoH), 66,000 residents in the area were offered free transportation, medical assessments and awareness programmes.

More than 50 residential complexes were sanitised and 701 buildings were screened in the process.

The DoH has also revealed that 300,000 masks and 853,000 free meals were distributed throughout the 10-day campaign.

The comprehensive screening and testing campaign in Al Dhafrah’s industrial areas has successfully concluded, having fully contained the spread of Covid-19 among the areas’ residents, as part of the National Screening Programme. pic.twitter.com/SbVbIdbtDW
— مكتب أبوظبي الإعلامي (@ADMediaOffice) June 29, 2020

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