PM: Learn to live with Covid-19

PRIME Minister James Marape has reiterated his call to the nation to adjust to living with the Covid-19 pandemic.
“This is a medical war we are in and the country must adjust to living with the Covid-19 going into the future,” Marape said.
“The controller had called for a 14-day lockdown in NCD based on evidence that the city was facing community transmission of the coronavirus and for city residents yo adjust their lifestyles to living with the Covid-19.”
He said there would be some measures to be tried out.
“I ask our people to bear with us as we adjust,” he said.
“We all must support each other in these trying times. Our medical workers and our police need our help. Let us help adjust to living with these basic principles and God will continue to help us.”
The new measures to be tried out are:

• STRINGENT public transport requirements such as the wearing of mask, a maximum of 15 passengers in buses, early checking for airline travellers and monitored sea travelling;
• MANDATORY wearing of mask in all public places;
• WORK place safe practices mandatory;
• MARKETS, sports and community events must be conducted in a safe manner;
• MEASURING of temperature and washing of hands must be complied with;
• SCHOOL administrators to be Covid-safe practice coordinators;
• BARS and clubs will remain shut and beer drinking in public places and settlements will cease;
• NO shaking hands and keeping away from another person by two meters if without masks; and,
• CHURCHES will open for services in a Covid-sensitive manner.