Mozambique: INAE raids packed restaurant and bars flouting Covid-19 measures in Maputo – Watch

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Mozambique: INAE raids packed restaurant and bars flouting Covid-19 measures in Maputo – Watch

2:26 CAT | 22 Mar 2021

Photo: O País

Bars and restaurants in Maputo are continuing to flout the public disaster decree regulations. On Saturday night, for example, the National Economic Activities Inspectorate (INAE) found one restaurant crowded with people and several bars open.

In another night’s work, the INAE took to the streets of the capital to check how well establishments were complying with the government decrees for the prevention of COVID-19.

Some were not complying at all, as was the case with one restaurant in Maputo city, found open with over 80 customers, all behaving as if the pandemic did not exist.

It is said to have presented a picture of the world before Covid-19, when fun did not represent any risk at all. Loud music, dancing, hugging and drinking were all plainly in evidence.

The decree currently in force does not allow the opening of bars, nor crowds of such size in any location.

The INAE’s Director of Operations, Verónio Duvane, said that the establishment in question had been committing such infringements for some time, and “there [was] a process being carried out against them; we are going to take tough measures”.

It is said that there are plenty of establishments carrying on in the same manner. The INAE’s night monitoring in the capital also found two bars in violation of the decree.

Last week, the INAE ordered the closure of a nightclub operating clandestinely in the city of Maputo, at the same time catching about 200 people violating Public Disaster Situation rules.

Source: O País / STV