Barrow ban all non-essential food outlets, public places

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Adama Barrow, the President of The Gambia has on Friday in a televised statement indicated that all non-essential food outlets in all markets and enclosed shopping areas shall be closed, adding all non-essential public places, such as bars, cafeterias, cinemas, video clubs, gymnasiums, museums, night clubs, public swimming pools, events halls, casinos, gaming parlours and sporting venues shall also be closed.

Mr. president further pronounced that with quest to curb the spread of the COVID-19 in the Gambia, all public places of worship should be closed.

He ordered that the number of people attending any social gathering, such as weddings, naming ceremonies and funerals, is restricted to a maximum of ten people. He added that all public transport should carry half of the total number of passengers they are allowed to transport by law.  

“Invoking the powers invested in me as President under the Emergency Powers Act of the Laws of The Gambia, this is one of a series of Regulations I have signed, starting with the freezing of prices of all essential commodities to prevent any form of hoarding."

Barrow reiterated that only banks, petrol stations, traders and vendors in food and basic commodities in the markets, supermarkets and corner-shops are allow to operate their businesses, saying this must be done in accordance with the WHO recommended social distancing guidelines. 

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