The public authority has asked more than 70 arcades in Kampala to stay shut until they satisfy Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) pointed toward halting the spread of COVID-19.
While lifting the 42 days lockdown that was established to contain the second influx of COVID-19, President Yoweri Museveni demonstrated that he will permit arcades to continue procedure on condition that set up isolated passages and leave courses, have CCTV cameras to screen the arcades, give handwashing offices at all passageways and acquire temperature weapons to quantify the temperature surprisingly entering arcades.
He additionally guided them to set up a board to authorize hand washing and wearing face covers. The arcade proprietors were additionally needed to have confinement rooms where COVID-19 suspects for holding suspects before they are taken to the clinic and prevent sellers from working on verandas, in passageways and in brief structures fixed in mixtures of certain arcades.
They were additionally needed to have very much kept up with latrine offices, trash the executives frameworks with satisfactory dustbins and a supply of sterile offices like cleanser and fluid cleanser for use among different prerequisites. Recently, a group from Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA, Security and Ministry of Health left on a review exercise to set up whether the arcades had met the SOPs. Presently, tending to the press at Uganda Media Center, the Minister for Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs Hajat Minsa Kabanda, said that 70 arcades were observed to be rebellious and have been approached to close until they hold fast to the SOPs. Among those requested to close are Arrow Complex, Arua Park Plaza An and B, Avemar Shopping Center, Bamako House, Bonita Arcade, Bypass Building, Center Point, Dembe Arcade and Esco Plastic House.
Kabanda says that 76 arcades were observed to be agreeable and henceforth permitted to resume. These incorporate Annet Plaza Aponye Mall, Apple Towers, Arua Park Plaza, Atlanta Textile, Bhatia Towers, Bulamu Bwebugagga, Bypass Arcade and Chains of Liberty Towers among others.
At the point when the president lifted the lockdown, numerous arcades hurried to open before they could be assessed. The Deputy Executive Director of KCCA Eng. David Luyimbazai says that they let them open yet under severe recognition of the set SOPs and that those that have not satisfied the rules should close until they do as such. As a rule, brokers and clients in arcades overlook SOPs.
Luyimbazai says that KCCA working with security will continue to screen the city to guarantee that there is consistence to SOPs after re-opening.
The State Minister for Kampala, Kabuye Kyofatogabye says that with an end goal to decongest the roads, all merchants should leave as the president had before taught. He says that beginning one week from now, KCCA will meat authorization to guarantee that merchants are off the roads.
