Addu City Mayor Abdulla Sodiq stated the\ndecision to close all business avenues after 1800hrs everyday was taken after\ndiscussing with the Director General of Public Health and Addu COVID-19 Task Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addu City Council released a statement to\nclose all business avenues in Addu City after 1800hr every day, effective from\nMarch 26. Regarding the statement, Spokesperson of National Emergency Operation\nService (NEOC) Mohamed Mabrouq Azeez stated Addu City Council took the decision\nwithout discussing the matter with Health Protection Agency (HPA). Following\nthis, Addu City Mayor tweeted the measures were taken after discussing with the\nDirector General of Public Health and Addu COVID-19 Task Force. Mayor further\nstated the council will be taking all precautionary measures to ensure the\nsafety of the public from the global COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the precautionary measures taken by\nthe council, the city council Addu City Council decided to close all business\navenues in Addu City after 1800hrs every day in an effort to contain the spread\nof COVID-19. In a statement released by the city council, all shops, cafes and\nrestaurants in the city should only be open from 0600hrs to 1800hrs every day,\neffective from March 26. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moreover, the council also stated\nrestaurants and cafes\u2019 will be permitted to do delivery services from 1800hrs\nto 2200hrs after requesting a special permit from the Island Office.\nAdditionally, businesses opened for 24hrs are also advised to request a special\npermit from the Island Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Addu City Mayor Abdulla Sodiq stated the decision to close all business avenues after 1800hrs everyday was taken after discussing with the Director General of Public Health and Addu COVID-19 Task Force. Addu City Council released a statement to close all business avenues in Addu City after 1800hr every day, effective from March 26. Regarding … Continue reading “Closing business avenues after 1800hrs was discussed with Director General of Public Health: Mayor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,1],"tags":[10,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}