MOH Confirmed You’d Need to Have Your Masks On While Waiting for Food in Eateries

The authorities have said this countless times: the COVID-19 laws are meant to protect us, and while we should follow them, we shouldn’t follow them just because we want to avoid the hefty fines.

We should follow the rules to stop the transmission of the coronavirus.

Guess that’s fallen in deaf ears to some, because the Ministry of Health (MOH) has come out to remind us of a few certain rules that we should abide by.

You’d Need to Have Your Masks On While Waiting for Food in Eateries

So, when you’re dining out in a group, can you remove your mask the moment you plant your butt on the seat?

And once you’re done with your meal, can you stay on the table and chit-chat with your friends with your masks off?

Common sense would say no to both questions, but you can convince yourself that you’re not breaking the rules since dining out means you need to remove your masks.

Therefore, our dear MOH has come out to reconfirm what we already know but chose not to know: you can’t remove your mask unless you’re putting food or water into your mouth.

Today, MOH highlighted again that when you dine out, you shouldn’t remove your masks—it should only be removed when you’re eating or drinking.

So that means you should have your mask on even when you’re placing an order with the server.

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That should be clear enough, and needless to say, if you’ve dined out in the last few days, you’d know that many people didn’t know about this or chose not to know about it.

This is essential because just yesterday night, a restaurant was listed as a place that an infectious COVID-19 has been to. We can only hope he has followed the rules to a T.

You can read more about the 11 facts of dining out in this article.

MOH also reminded us of something else.

Avoid Social Gathering Even When It’s Allowed

On the first day of Phase Two, everyone left their houses like they’ve been stuck in their houses for 2.5 months.

Reader Bao: We were indeed stuck in our house for 2.5 months.

Right, but that doesn’t mean you’d have to meet all your friends within a week to catch up on the good old CB times.

Instead, MOH said that we should “we should continue to exercise social responsibility and limit our total interactions to a small and regular group of contacts, while continuing to keep in touch with family and friends via digital and other non-physical means where possible.”

In other words, don’t go apeshit on meeting all your friends immediately.

In case you’re not been reading the news, here’s something you ought to know then: if community cases increase, we might revert to Phase One or Circuit Breaker.

So do your part and don’t be a Covidiot.

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