UAE celebrities speak on social distancing

Gulf News

Gulf News tracked down a cross-section of celebrities like actress Kubbra Sait and designer Varoin Marwah, who have a deep connect to the UAE. They collectively urged the citizens of the UAE to stay home, to stay safe and to be a superhero by following the basic rule of staying home.  Here’s a look at what the public figures who have a home in this region have to say about our civic responsibility to help fight the Covid-19 outbreak that has claimed thousands of lives worldwide   Full Article here: See more at https://gulfnews.com/videos

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00:00Hey Gulf News, this is Nitin Birani and I'm in Mumbai right now. I hope you guys are all safe

00:05I want to leave a small message for everyone here

00:07Like I've said before basically Mother Earth has taken a maternity leave and it's our turn to now take care of her

00:14Please please please

00:16Listen to whatever the government is saying

00:19Listen to the professionals. Social distancing is very very important. Please make sure you don't risk your lives or the lives of others

00:28cooperate

00:29It's time to now act and not react to things when they happen. I know these are very tough times for everybody

00:35So, please hang in there

00:37you know, there's a lot of things you can do while you're

00:40You know quarantined at home. So come up with creative ideas

00:44please do not step out take care of yourself and your family and

00:49If any of these guys who are delivering things, please give them an extra tip because they are the actual heroes

00:55stay safe and

00:57Yeah, see you soon. God bless. Hi there. How are you doing?

01:01This is an urge a plea and a request. Please just listen to the government's listen to the authorities

01:08Listen to yourself, you know, what is the right thing to do?

01:10And the right thing to do is to stay at home stay indoors stay healthy stay selfish get stronger

01:15We can fight this together. We really can and I know this is the time when it may feel it gets stifling

01:23But it can also be liberating so it just depends on how you look at it, so go ahead do those things that

01:30You always complained you didn't have time to do

01:34And enjoy this time that you can spend with yourself

01:39Hello to all the Gulf news readers, I hope you're doing well, I hope you're doing safe

01:44My name is Varun and I'm here just to request each one of you to please take the campaign as seriously as you can

01:51Stop going out for no reason

01:54Only and only if it's an emergency you will step out

01:56Otherwise staying home is the option that you should be choosing not just for your friends family and yourself

02:02But also for anybody around it's a social responsibility that each one of us need to embrace at this stage

02:09Connect with yourself. There is lots that we haven't done during a busy life

02:13So perhaps you want to pick up that hobby you want to clean up your house

02:17You want to learn a new thing that you haven't done in the past if nothing talk to people on the phone

02:23There's always a way to connect with people check on them check on yourself and by staying at home

02:29You're actually protecting everyone. So I'm hoping that I'm not going to see people on the streets unless it's an emergency

02:36And I hope there isn't any

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