Municipality closes 336 shops in all six governorates for violating corona rules By Abdulnasser Al-Aslami
Trucks, roads sterilized in cleanliness campaign
KUWAIT CITY, March 24: The official spokesperson of Kuwait Municipality Muhammad Al-Mutairi announced that 336 commercial shops in six governorates were closed because the owners of these shops did not follow rules and regulations as well as preventive measures related to curbing the spread of coronavirus.
He told KUNA that these shops included restaurants, hair salons for both men and women, health institutes, gaming centers, and mobile shops.
Al-Mutairi explained emergency teams from Inspection and Follow-up of Municipality Service Department conducted inspection tours of commercial shops in all governorates. They so far checked 6,098 shops and issued 1,832 warnings.
A total of 60 vital facilities, cooperative societies located in various places in Kuwait, public markets as well as 163,877 garbage containers were cleaned and sterilized.
Meanwhile, the Public Relations Department of Kuwait Municipality revealed that the emergency team of Hawally Municipality conducted a tour of all the shops of the governorate to make sure the owners of those shops were following the rules and regulations of Kuwait Municipality to curb the spread of coronavirus.
Head of the emergency team Ahmad Ramadan declared that the tour conducted by the emergency team resulted in the inspection of 91 shops, closure of seven shops – two restaurants, one accessories store, one barbershop, one mobile shop, one flower shop, and a ladies salon).
Deputy Head of Farwaniya and Mubarak Al-Kabeer Municipalities Amaar Al-Amaar appreciated the achievements of these two governorates’ inspection teams during the last week for curbing the spread of coronavirus.
The observation unit in the two governorates issued 586 warnings, closed 635 shops and cafés, issued 302 citations, closed down ten amusement parks, dispersed 293 gatherings, cleaned 18,827 containers, and washed and sterilized 28,827 containers in residential areas and on main streets.
The Public Department for Cleaning Affairs cleaned and sterilized 23,557 containers, issued 546 warnings, closed 562 shops, and sterilized 5,270 containers.
Cleanliness enhanced: Kuwait Municipality continues to execute decisions of the Council of Ministers to curb the spread of coronavirus in the country by enhancing cleanliness and conducting inspection campaigns to close the violating shops.
Department of Public Cleanliness and Road Usage in Hawally Municipality cleaned and sterilized 6,400 containers of various sizes. Officers from the department conducted a campaign against neglected vehicles which resulted in the lifting of 15 such vehicles and referred them to the seized vehicle garage.
Officers of “shift B” from the department in Farwaniya Municipality’s Department of Public
Cleanliness and Road Usage that is in charge of following up violations related to cleanliness and road usage issued four citations in Ardiya area.
Capital Municipality’s Department of Public Cleanliness and Road Usage confiscated two truckloads of goods sold illegally by hawkers.
Mubarak Al-Kabeer Municipality’s emergency team closed a violating health institute and issued two citations for carrying out an activity not mentioned in their licenses.
Hawally Municipality, with the cooperation of General Department for Criminal Evidences closed a health institute that violated the
decision of the Council of Ministers.
Fashionista probed: The Ministry of Health has referred an unidentified Fashionista to the Public Prosecution for promoting a device to detect infection with ‘Covid-19’, without approval from the concerned authority, reports Al-Rai daily.
The Assistant Undersecretary for Medicines and Medical Equipment Affairs at the Ministry of Health, Dr Abdullah Al-Badr, said the Ministry of Health referred social media celebrity the Public Prosecution for promoting an unlicensed device.
Al-Badr has called on citizens
and residents to beware such people and said the device that has been promoted has no licence from the Ministry of Health.
Family threatened:
Police have arrested an unidentified Kuwaiti who allegedly threatened to shoot his wife and children with the air gun following a dispute between him and one of his sons, reports Al-Rai daily.
The daily added, the family members shut themselves in a room reported to the matter to the police following which the man and his weapon was seized.
The suspect has been referred to the area police station.