 The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the National Emergency Management Organization NIMO recently hosted a series of workshops with emergency shelter staff, aimed at bringing awareness on dealing with the new COVID-19 environment in the shelters. Deputy Director of NIMO Maria Mehta says she is very pleased with the participation of the emergency shelter staff as it will build a capacity to respond effectively for the prevention and control of COVID-19 at those shelters. We have had these sessions in three other areas, in Shwazel, in Niku and at the Marigosecondary School. We have chosen those areas because we wanted to give a greater exposure to the support staff as much as possible, get a lot of people involved in the awareness of COVID when you have activated a shelter, life at a shelter these days with COVID. Mehta also expressed hope that participants will gain a well-formed knowledge, which will be used to impact positively the operations of the shelters during COVID-19. Hoping at the end of it that we will have support staff, that they will have a greater awareness of how to handle shelters now in this new environment of COVID. The aspect of safety first, safety for yourself and safety for your shelters, this is important. So we felt that we should partner the Ministry of Health in providing that form of education. The emergency shelter managers and support staff were also granted the opportunity to partake in a simulation exercise, highlighting how to accept people into a shelter and what to do now with COVID-19. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Fena Neptune.