Covid: Billionaire’s plan to manage multiple homes | Economic Times

From travelling to more than 50 countries in 2019, to living life under lockdown, entrepreneur Divyank Turakhia needed to course correct quickly to make the most of 2020, and the second year of his planned “two-year vacation”.Not one to waste an opportunity, he is using the forced downtime to do some thinking about the businesses he wishes to build and map out his life goals over the next decade.Turakhia, founder, Media.net, is currently quarantining at his residence in Dubai. He was in London with his older brother and business partner Bhavin when Covid-19 was first declared a pandemic. “UK seemed a higher risk at the time, since their strategy was herd immunity. So, we [Bhavin and I] decided to come back to our Dubai home around mid-March,” he told ETPanache over the phone.Setting protocolsThe two were keeping a close eye on developments related to the disease since it first made headlines at the start of the year, Turakhia said. In fact, in February, as more information about the dos and don’ts related to Covid-19 started becoming available, the brothers worked towards mandating protocols to be followed across their residences in Mumbai (where their parents reside), London and Dubai. 76147711“It was mainly about putting in place some basic rules, which we all observe. The staff was instructed to avoid going to markets as much as possible and move to online buying. All deliveries have to be handled with gloves and left untouched for at least 24 hours as far as possible. Wash your hands immediately after interacting with any outsiders. That kind,” Turakhia said.He added, “We did not want people to go in and out. So where we had temporary staff, we incentivised them to move in for the time being. We only have live-in staff currently.”They even ordered over a hundred at-home rapid antibody test kits back in February, when availability was not a big concern. The results of these tests may not be as accurate, but they work in emergencies.Down timeNow that the lockdown has eased off in Dubai, Turakhia allows himself the simple pleasure of a walk outside every other day. But apart from that, it’s time at home, spent speed reading, tinkering with the Xbox that his brother got and plenty of video calls to catch up with friends and family.“My parents are happy that they get a few calls every week now as opposed to a call every few weeks,” he said.74551240