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Movement restrictions in Al Ras and Naif districts had been eased, Dubai's Supreme Committee of Crisis and Disaster Management announced on Sunday.

The decision comes as both areas recorded zero COVID-19 cases in the last two days.

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00:00Hello everyone. I'm standing here in the heart of the Al Naif street where the 24-hour movement
00:05restriction has been lifted by the Supreme Committee for Crisis and Disaster Management
00:11on Sunday, April 26. The move was done because there was no positive COVID-19 case reported
00:19in this area as well as the Al Raas area for the last two days. Seeing the success of this,
00:25the committee has decided to remove 24-hour movement restrictions. We at Gulf News are here
00:32to speak to some vendors as well as people living in the area to find out how life has been for them
00:38the last two weeks. So let's go and talk to them and find out how it has been.
00:43The shop is almost closed for almost a month. Okay. Yeah. And the police has done a very good,
00:51fantastic job here. They control everything and they monitor each and every person.
00:58And then after monitoring everyone, the situation got under control of Dubai police.
01:03We followed the instruction of the Dubai government. Stay home, stay safe.
01:21When we were in isolation, my family members, we were four of them. My father, my mother,
01:49my wife and my three-year-old kid. We were staying at home. That's it. We didn't step out.
01:54We didn't step out from our house. And for groceries and everything, delivery was going on,
02:01so we could order on phone and they used to deliver it. Everything was locked down,
02:06but thanks to the government, they have taken very good care. Food was provided,
02:12all the essentials were provided. Business was closed down for exactly around one month,
02:17you can say. It was closed down for one month and it has been affected. Obviously, it has been
02:22affected, but we had a PDC also issued to our suppliers, to our landlords. We're thankful to
02:27the Dubai government. Whatever they have done, they have done for our safety, not for them.
02:32Yeah. For our safety first and then for themselves. So we are very grateful to the Dubai government.
02:39So as you can see, the Al-Ras and Naif areas are slowly crawling back to normalcy.
02:45We spoke to a number of vendors. They are, of course, concerned about the negative impact of
02:51all this in their business. They have issued a number of PDCs to suppliers, but they're also
02:59banking on the receivables that are due to them. All in all, they have thanked the government of
03:06Dubai for the massive and great effort that they have taken to contain the spread of COVID-19.
03:14They all said they followed the measures completely that was laid down by the government.
03:20They are hopeful of a brighter future as things get back to normal slowly.
03:26This is Anjana Kumar for Gulf News.
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