December the 13th, 2020 – The new Croatian coronavirus measures which involve shops and the limiting of the number of people allowed inside at any one time has created huge queues.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, as people rushed to do their Christmas shopping on Friday, long queues and crowds continued into Saturday as well, because until January the 10th, 2021, the new rules on the permitted number of people in shops and shopping centres will continue to apply. In stores smaller than 10 square metres, there can only be one customer at any given time, 24sata writes.
In many Croatian cities, queues quickly formed in front of stores, the same kind we all saw during the first wave of the pandemic when there was also a limitation on the number of customers allowed inside shops.
New Croatian coronavirus measures
Stores ranging in size from 11 to 100 square metres in size can accommodate customers provided ten square metres can be provided for each person.
Stores from 101 to 200 square metres can accommodate customers provided they provide 12 square metres per customer.
Those up to 2,000 square feet will have to provide 16 square feet per customer, and 20 square feet for each customer must be provided by stores larger than 2,000 square feet.
For shopping malls and centres, the maximum number of customers is determined so that at least 16 square metres must be provided for each customer.
All stores and shopping centres will have to display a notice at their entrances about the maximum number of customers allowed inside and ensure that the rules are implemented, or take additional measures to ensure that the stores don’t have more customers inside than allowed.
It will still not be possible to sit in the corridors of shopping centres, ie stores larger than 2,000 square metres, the organised transportation of customers by bus will also not be available. Hygienic protection measures will be strengthened.
The implementation of these new Croatian coronavirus measures will be controlled by the Civil Protection, the police and the State Inspectorate.
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