Damascus-Sana
Interior Minister Maj. Gen. Muhammad Khaled al-Rahmun assured that the decision taken by the government team on the strategy to tackle the Corona epidemic yesterday, on preventing movement between each governorate and its countryside until further notice aimed at reducing the gatherings and thus preventing the spread of the virus and maintaining public safety.
Minister Al-Rahmon said in an interview with the Syrian channel that the decision requires preventing movement between each governorate and its countryside, not between the governorates, and it follows the previous decision to prohibit roaming from six in the evening until six in the morning and does not contradict it, and its aim is to reduce congestion and friction between people in cities and prevent the spread of infection, if any. .
The Minister of the Interior pointed out that a 48-hour deadline had been set before the start of implementing this decision so that any citizen could address any issue he had in city centers.
Rahmoun said that the government team concerned with following up the issue of tackling the Corona virus set a series of measures to secure materials, food commodities and bread for citizens in remote and remote villages, as it mandated the ministries of Internal Trade, Consumer Protection, Local Administration and the Environment to secure them, pointing out that the Syrian Trade will run mobile cars to secure the requirements of the brotherly citizens of These areas.
The Minister of the Interior stressed that all decisions taken to address the Corona epidemic exclude health and humanitarian cases and the need to facilitate the movement of exceptional cases on the roads and that the movement of patients who need an ambulance or surgical work with their companions will be facilitated as well as decisions exclude everything related to ensuring the continuity of the health sector and the operation Productivity in all fields and allowing the movement of mechanisms that carry oil derivatives, foodstuffs and supplies in a way that ensures the provision of the local market needs in all governorates.
He said: We have been excluded from roaming, the large and small truck mechanisms and closed trucks that transport some of the therapeutic requirements that need to be cooled, so they do not need any tasks, as the transportation of oil derivatives is also permitted and no permit is required, in addition to that the primary materials for production and the transfer of workers to their laboratories were subject to missions granted by Ministers and governors, especially the Minister of Industry.
Regarding the movement of employees of Damascus International Airport during the time of going and returning from work, the Minister of the Interior said that tasks such as the agricultural and industrial production institutions, medical personnel and employees that require the nature of work to continue in ministries or state institutions where tasks are given to some employees are indicated, indicating that he has The governors have powers to assign tasks to some employees, especially those working in industrial cities, and to secure production requirements.
The government team concerned with following up the procedures to tackle the Corona virus decided to prevent the movement of citizens between governorate centers and all regions and rural areas at all times for those who are not authorized, starting from 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 29-2020 until further notice, and the Ministry of Interior was mandated to supervise the implementation of the decision in cooperation With the security services, military checkpoints, and the intensification of patrols to ensure good compliance of citizens with this decision.
The decision excluded all events that were excluded from the curfew measures referred to in Circular No. 375 of March 25 and its antecedents.