{"id":35313,"date":"2021-06-28T01:39:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=35313"},"modified":"2021-06-28T01:39:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:39:20","slug":"abu-dhabi-emergency-crisis-and-disasters-committee-expands-roll-out-of-ede-covid-19-scanners-across-emirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/06\/28\/abu-dhabi-emergency-crisis-and-disasters-committee-expands-roll-out-of-ede-covid-19-scanners-across-emirate\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Committee expands roll-out of EDE Covid-19 scanners across emirate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Committee has announced it will expand the roll-out of EDE COVID-19 scanners across the emirate following a successful pilot phase. The decision also follows the Department of Health \u2013 Abu Dhabi\u2019s approval of EDE scanners as effective and viable detectors of the COVID-19 virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision is part of the emirate\u2019s commitment to continuously enhancing COVID-19 precautionary measures that protect public health using the latest technology. EDE scanning technology will also play a key role in limiting COVID-19 transmission by establishing safe zones that are subject to a series of preventive procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Effective from 28 June, EDE scanners will be used at various shopping malls, some residential areas, and all land and air entry points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the scanner identifies a person as being potentially infected with COVID-19, they will not be permitted to enter and must follow the approved protocol and take a PCR test within 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Committee has announced it will expand the roll-out of EDE COVID-19 scanners across the emirate following a successful pilot phase. The decision also follows the Department of Health \u2013 Abu Dhabi\u2019s approval of EDE scanners as effective and viable detectors of the COVID-19 virus. The decision is part &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35315,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35313\/revisions\/35315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}