My loves go away, ambulantes go too and txopelas stay all alone. At 9pm, machimbombos and chapas stay put – Watch

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My loves go away, ambulantes go too and txopelas stay all alone. At 9pm, machimbombos and chapas stay put – Watch

3:39 CAT | 12 Feb 2021

Screen grab: Conselho Municipal de Maputo

Public passenger transport in Maputo city will henceforth be off the road by 9:00 p.m., with the last vehicles leaving terminals no later than by 8:10 p.m., Mayor Eneas Comiche, announced among other measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 in Maputo.

Speaking at city hall on Wednesday, Mayor Comiche clarified curfew hours and rules for residents and workers in the capital city, and announced readjustments to public passenger transport as part of Covid-19 containment measures.

Tuk-tuks [txopelas] will only be allowed to take one passenger at a time; the so-called ‘My Love’ open transports are strictly forbidden to circulate in the capital; and passengers arriving on flights after curfew will need to produce boarding tickets so as to justify their presence on the road.

The Municipal Council has also adjusted the operating hours of retail markets.

The Zimpeto wholesale market, the agricultural inputs market and the pavilion at the Fish Market will now operate from 6:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Mondays to Saturdays, and from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. on Sundays. Restaurants will be allowed to operate from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m..

The mayor clarified that any seizure of alcoholic beverages from commercial establishments found operating outside the designated hours was justified under municipal ordinance and other instruments regulating economic activity in the capital.

Comiche told the press conference that agents of the Municipal Police agents are instructed to expel all informal traders from the streets o Baixa, central Maputo.

The market in the Laulane neighbourhood promised to vendors is still in the planning stages, the Maputo mayor announcing this Wednesday that the public tender for the construction of the infrastructure had already been launched.

Comiche insisted that reversing the current high number of infections, deaths and hospitalisations depended on the individual and collective action of the capital’s inhabitants.

“We regret and condemn all manifestations of disrespect for the measures in force, which do not dignify us as citizens,” he said. “All residents must adopt responsible attitudes and behaviour, in defence of their health, their lives, their families and society.”

Source: Noticias / O País