Government extends closing hours for eateries as 133 more test positive
The Health Ministry has extended operating hours in hotels to 7:30 pm.
Health CS Mutahi Kagwe on Tuesday insisted that although the number of hours has been increased, the terms of operation set by the ministry before remains the same.
Hoteliers wanted to operate until 8 pm but the ministry declined this proposal. It increased the hours to 5 pm from 4 pm last week on Saturday and now gave another two and a half hours extension.
Patrick Muya, the chairman of Pubs, Entertainment and Restaurants Association of Kenya (PERAK) in a presser last week on Friday requested “to be allowed to operate up to at most 8 pm, as our operators have their own arrangements for staff accommodation and transport, which means that curfew hours will be observed.”
Kagwe in his directive said the extension was a show of good faith to the hoteliers who have followed the regulations placed by the ministry when operating during these times of the novel coronavirus.
Kagwe also announced that 133 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded thereby raising the country’s confirmed cases to 3,860.
The ministry tested3,255 samples in the last 24 hour cumulatively bringing total tests since the first case was recorded to 121,926.
A 13-year-old is the youngest patient and the oldest is 90 years.
He said that 40 more patients have been discharged tallying to 1,326 the total number of recovered patients.
