The Malian authorities decided on Friday to suspend all festivities and demonstrations and to close all leisure places for two weeks due to a "worrying" progression of the Covid-19.
The communications presented to the Superior Council of National Defense
"have clearly established a worrying increase in the spread of the disease in the country, with nearly a third of positivity of those tested,"
said a statement from this high-level decision-making body.
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To
“break the chain of contamination”
, the council decided to close all leisure places from Saturday until April 25 inclusive, and to suspend all festivities and events for 15 days with immediate effect.
He also decided to proceed with a new
“massive and free” distribution
of masks, to scrupulously enforce its compulsory wearing in public, as well as to ban gatherings of more than 50 people.
He intends to
"accelerate the acquisition of new doses of vaccine and intensify the vaccination campaign".
Mali, a poor country of about 20 million inhabitants hard hit by the jihadist push, violence of all kinds and a deep economic, political and social crisis, has officially declared more than 11,300 cases of contamination and 404 deaths.
