MUSCAT: With the Oman gearing-up to impose full-lockdown during the first three days of Eid Al Adha (from July 20 to 22), the Government Communication Centre (GC) has issued the list of businesses and individuals allowed to work during the complete closure.

Following are the list of activities and individuals exempted from the full lockdown:

• Hospitals, health centres, government and private clinics.
• Pharmacists.
• Livestock keepers and farmers between 5am and 11am.
• Transportation buses for workers in factories working round the clock.
• Transport vehicles for bakeries and laundry (that have government contracts). They will can transport cleaning services and food to government institutions such as hospitals.
• Hotel establishments and workers.
• Fishermen
• Tyre and vehicle repair shops inside fuel stations.
• Shift workers in the banking sector that required to be in the work place.
• Shops for selling and repairing pumps and modern irrigation systems, shops selling electrical and sanitary materials (by appointments only without opening the shop).
• Emergency service vehicles for electricity, water, communications, roads, public hygiene.
• Vehicles for transporting gas cylinders and water tanks.
• Airports and ports
• Trucks above 3 tonnes.
• Workers in fuel stations on duty.
• Workers in public and private press and media institutions.
• Workers in the relief and shelter sector.
• Shift workers in specialised insurance, freight and customs clearance offices.
• Food testing laboratories.
• Oil and gas fields.