A gas station in Kyle keeps its front doors open. | Contributed photo
A gas station in Kyle keeps its front doors open. | Contributed photo
Kyle is taking extra precautions when it comes to frequently touched surfaces in an effort to lessen the spread of COVID-19.
"Nobody is solving the problem for us," Mayor Travis Mitchell told KXAN. "We've got to figure out ourselves and that's what every city, especially the cities along the interstate corridor, whether you're moving into shelter in place procedures or not."
The City of Kyle has been taking steps to help reduce to spread of the coronavirus. After the mayor and his staff brainstormed what could be done to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, a new campaign was announced by Mitchell called "Touch Points."
The idea of the campaign is to reduce the number of door knobs or handles residents of the city have to touch throughout the day. Gas stations, specifically ones located along Interstate 35, will now be required to keep their front doors open throughout the day and have a sign posted to inform customers why the doors are open.
The message on the signs will be: "The front door of this business shall remain open during operating business hours until further notice," KXAN reported.
Putting these signs up at touch points will be the next step to the campaign, Mitchell said.
“Let’s say you sanitize a door handle every 15 minutes at a gas station,” he said to KXAN. “You’re still going to have a number of people touching the exact same spot between those sanitation procedures. So what we really need is to ensure that everyone entering the business washes their hands prior to entering and when they exit they wash their hands prior to leaving. So opening up the front doors is really just the first thing that we could think of to slow the spread of the virus through probably the most critical touch point.”
This means signs will be by door handles, sale machines, counters and gas pumps to start.
Mitchell plans on creating protocol lines outside of stores as well, which will ensure customers are staying six feet apart while shopping, KXAN reported. Sanitation stations will also be set up in stores, allowing customers to wash their hands while shopping.
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