Restaurants, Retail and Coffee Shops secretly sell Alcohol to public

Kisoro Bars remain closed while Restaurants, Retail and Coffee Shops secretly sell Alcohol to public

The Kisoro district Covid-19 Taskforce has resolved to intensify security operations on all businesses that are secretly selling Alcohol to the public.

The comments come at a time when President Museveni recently relaxed some of the Lockdown guidelines including allowing transport to operate at 50% among others.

Bars remain closed until further notice.

While addressing the district Covid 19 task force, the deputy Resident district commissioner Dan Ndikumwami said drinking alcohol across the district never stopped at any one time.

Ndikumwami said people with financial means now go to coffee shops and restaurants around the district, at all hours of the day and night and drink alcohol.

“The trick they are using is to order some food and accompany it with a beer, others simply ask for the disposable coffee cups and drink alcohol. This is very dangerous and goes against the Covid 19 guidelines”, Ndikumwami said.

He noted that those with less financial means simply go to ordinary shops that sell general household items and drink from there under the guise of buying things for home.

Ndikumwami noted that if this behavior is not curtailed soon, these retail shops, coffee shops and restaurants will become the super spreaders of Covid 19.

“We are prepared to arrest anyone found in any of these establishments found drinking alcohol. We realize drinking is not a sin but if people continue to gather in these places, we shall be in trouble, Ndikumwami explained.

2 bar owners arrested and fined

The Kisoro district acting Police Commander (DPC) Steven Ogwang told vomuhabura that two bar owners who decided to defy Covid guidelines were recently arrested and taken to the courts of law.

Ogwang noted that the two bar owners, whose identities were concealed pleaded guilty and were fined a total of 200,000 shillings each.

Vomuhabura has learnt that of August 3^rd 2021, the cumulative positive cases from June 2021 is 947 cases out of 2837 total cases tested.

The cumulative deaths is 23 while the cumulative discharges stands at 498.