Authorities in Torit, Eastern Equatoria State have deployed six police personnel at the Torit main market to enforce covid-19 preventive measures
Many people around Torit Market could be seen still practicing normal life like handshake, crowding among other social lives
Police spokesman Major Justine Cleophas Takuru told Radio Emmanuel on Friday that the purpose of the deployment is to monitor how people are keeping the preventive measures of covid-19 in the market.
He added that their work is to inform the customers to wash their hands when entering the shop and after getting out of the shop.
‘Yes we are seeing we as the police at the municipality here we have the committee of about six police women and six police officers, we put them in order to patrol the market to check the shops in case of the number of customers is high, they have to tell others to wait and at least one to complete buying and the next will go and they show washing hands once they want to buy something and after coming from the market because he or she was handling money and might go. This is the importance of the police we deployed in the market. They will work from morning up to four when the market is closed that is when they will go home’, Major Cleophas explained.
The spokesman appealed to citizens to take full responsibility in order to protect themselves from this deadly disease with the preventive measures given by the Ministry of Health through the national high level taskforce.
He disclosed that people have resumed gathering at funeral places.
‘I am appealing to the citizens outside there that the disease is increasing and the death rate is also increasing, this will be our responsibility to protect ourselves with the preventive measures that the Ministry of Health told us and the high taskforce committee told us. Even the issues of the funeral have resume, this disease is very dangerous the people who are dead now reaches to eight and people who are sick are going beyond 300. I am appealing to the citizens to pull up their socks because this disease is deadly, people look at it as simple, but it is deadly because other outside countries are unable to prevent and for us we are suffering, he pleaded.
The police spokesperson made the remark on Friday in Torit, Eastern Equatoria State.