COVID-19 TEAM’S SHOCKING FINDINGS

MBABANE - Shock and disappointment in Mbabane and Pigg’s Peak!

This best describes what the COVID-19 Regional Task Team came across during random inspections in some shops in the region. The team paid surprise visits to various shops, salons, border gates and towns to establish if businesspeople and members of the public were complying with the regulations of the recently introduced partial lockdown.  According to Khulani Mamba, who heads the Compliance and Protection Unit, the inspection started last Tuesday in northern Hhohho. He said their findings were to the effect that Pigg’s Peak had high foot traffic during the day despite that they had been ordered to remain at home to observe the partial lockdown.

Spreading

Mamba said the public was found in numbers, something he said might result in them spreading the coronavirus. Mamba said the team noted that the high number of people might have been caused by the temporary ban of public transport during the day. Public transport has been temporarily banned after 9am and allowed to operate again from 3pm. He said the team visited the Matsamo Border Post where they discovered that people who wanted to cross to South Africa were turned back. Mamba said the team gathered that some people opted for the informal crossing points once they were turned back. “We will engage members of the Umbutfo Eswatini Defence Force concerning the use of informal crossing points,” he said. Upon their arrival in Mbabane yesterday, the team discovered that some shop owners were not using the sanitisers with 70 per cent alcohol as a means of minimising the spread of the coronavirus on customers entering the shop.

Sanitiser

At SaveMor Supermarket, Patel Shoyeb honestly told the team that they refill the containers that had the sanitiser which was used at the entrance. Shoyeb told the team that he was not sure whether the sanitiser was approved by the World Health Organisation.

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