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Do not gather with people outside of your household to celebrate Eid Al Fitr, said Dr Saif Al Dhaheri, official spokesman of the National Crisis and Emergency Management Authority (NCEMA).
Instead, congratulations should be shared online.
NCEMA s Covid-19 briefing on Tuesday continued to urge residents to take precautionary measures and avoid social gatherings, and reiterated that food should not be exchanged among friends and neighbours. Dr Saif Al Dhaheri urged residents to celebrate Eid Al Fitr online. Wam
It was also advised to continue wearing masks and implement physical distancing while sitting with the elderly and people with chronic illnesses.
What happens next?
The lab performs a procedure called extraction, where they isolate genetic material from the sample to check if any virus is present.
Special chemicals are then used to create a reaction that makes millions of copies of a portion of the Sars-Cov-2 virus’s genetic material. One chemical creates a reaction that lights up in a fluorescent colour if the virus is detected.
What does a PP, or presumptive positive, result mean?
The result is inconclusive. It might be positive but it needs to be repeated again in three days, said Dr Engy Iskandar, a specialist in internal medicine at Dubai s International Modern Hospital.
Dubai: The last 10 days of Ramadan have begun – signalling the start of Eid Al Fitr preparations that would traditionally involve buying new clothes, getting new cash notes to gift children for Eidiya and filling up sweet trays with traditional Arabic sweets and Omani halwa.
Eid Al Fitr is expected to fall on either May 12 or 13, depending on Tuesday’s sighting of the crescent moon that marks the end of Ramadan and the start of Eid. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid Al Fitr, the festival of breaking the fast, although the date of the celebration may differ in countries due to the methodology involved in the moonsighting.
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