City market will close for two weeks

National

ONE of Port Moresby’s biggest and most popular markets will be closed for two weeks as part of a clean-up exercise, an official says.
Boroko Market controller Mala Evera told The National yesterday that they were cleaning up.
“We are doing a mass cleaning with the help of a few market vendors and security officers as advised by National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop,” Evera said.
National Pandemic Response Controller David Manning issued orders last week to have it closed when the number of the Covid-19 cases increased in the capital city.
The Boroko area was one of the hot-spots identified.
Last Friday regular vendors who arrived from Central found the market closed.
Parkop said the market needed to be cleaned.
“The closure of the market was due to the ignorance of the vendors to follow Covid-19 protocols,” he said.
“We will have problems to fit them in other markets but in the meantime Hohola market and the Gordon market will be open to them.”