Amid efforts to curb
the spread of COVID-19, the Lagos State Government has issued new guidelines
for the reopening of markets and shopping malls across the state.
Wale Ahmed, the
State’s Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Dr Wale Ahmed,
said that all markets and stores across the State would be allowed to open from
9.00p.m. till 3.00p.m. on selected days.
In a statement he
issued yesterday in Lagos, the Commissioner said the guidelines were necessary,
NAN reports.
He said that
issuance of the guidelines followed Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s announcement on
the gradual easing of the lockdown in Lagos from Monday.
He said that
everyone going to the markets and stores would be mandated to observe
precautionary measures, such as physical distancing and high level of personal
and respiratory hygiene.
Ahmed said that
malls would also be allowed to open with the proviso that they would maintain a
60 per cent occupancy capacity at any point in time.
He added that there
should be a two-metre physical distancing between a shopper and the next person
in the store.
The commissioner
said that food handlers must wear masks and hand gloves in markets at all
times.
According to him,
shop owners must provide hand sanitisers and ensure hand washing with soap and
running water at all entry points.
He said that they
should also conduct temperature checks on customers and ensure that nobody
would be exempted from the process.
”The guidelines are
proactive measures put in place by the government to curtail a possible spread
of the deadly virus among traders in markets places and malls when the gradual
ease of the lockdown commences on Monday,” he said.
Ahmed said that food
sellers and other traders would operate on alternate days in all markets across
the state.
”In essence, those
trading in other items and wares apart from food will only be allowed to trade
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, while all food and farm produce sellers
will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,” the commissioner said.
He said that there
would be zero tolerance for all forms of street-trading, urging market
association leaders to ensure that their members would abide by the guidelines.
Ahmed also called on
the chairmen of local councils and the Office of Iyaloja-General and the State
enforcement agencies to ensure strict compliance with the directives.
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