Restaurants and hotels: Why a restaurant floor must be clean in times of COVID

As restaurants and hotels resume and continue operations in Puerto Vallarta, maintaining a clean and sanitized floor can reduce the risk to employees, customers and communities, and slow the spread of COVID-19.

COVID-19 is spread primarily when people are physically close (within 6 feet) to a person with COVID-19 or have direct contact with that person.

When people with COVID-19 cough, sneeze, sing, talk or breathe, they produce respiratory droplets. Infections occur primarily through exposure to respiratory droplets when a person is in close contact with someone with COVID-19.

Respiratory droplets can also be deposited on surfaces and objects. It is possible for a person to contract COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching his or her mouth, nose, or eyes.

Spread through contact with contaminated surfaces is not believed to be a common way of spreading COVID-19.

Therefore, it is highly recommended that Routine cleaning for restaurant or hotel surfaces, furnishings, decorative items and other objects.

Daily disinfection before opening.

Special cleaning in areas of high contact (button panels, handles of screens, handrails, etc.) and quite important: periodic cleaning and disinfection of floors every two months according to the FDA.