Health Minister unveils ‘Essential Services List' for COVID-19 curfew
The round the clock curfew comes into effect at 8:00pm tonight, Friday, March 27, 2020, and will be lifted at 6:00am on Thursday, April 2, 2020.
“The persons employed in the essential services as you find in section three of the Labour Code 2010 if they are on duty. This list would be printed so we will be able to see the complete list on the website,” he said on Thursday, March 26, 2020.
The Minister continued: “Officers of private security, service providers as defined in section two of the Private Security Industry Act of 2007, Customs and immigration officers, if they are on duty, the public and private sector waste management services, fuel distribution and delivery services, public and private sector, social care providers, the courts, senior magistrate and coroner, mortuary services, humanitarian support, emergency call handlers, freight courier and cargo distribution.”
Other essential services include certain statutory and laundry services, media and broadcast providers, farming, agriculture, fishery and veterinarian services, transportation services that would be tasked to provide transportation to essential and critical operations.
He added: “Supermarkets and restaurants providing services to and for essential services and critical operations, the health and emergency operations centre.”
List to be reviewed constantly
Meanwhile, this list is expected to be analysed ‘from time to time because no doubt there would be those who may have made the list that we will have to revise and those who may have been left off would have to be added,” the minister remarked.
Honourable Malone said; however, if persons on the list do not have a cause to be out of their homes, for their own safety and the safety of others, they should remain at home.
“This period is short compared to some of the countries that have a month, two months. If, when, it is lifted we do not abide by it and we cause a concern for the spread of this virus we would have to relook this. When we receive the results of the other nine tests we would have to say if from those persons in the Territory if we have any primary and secondary contacts that we have to further explore,” he said.
“We are hoping that we can get these results to us in short order,” Minister Malone remarked.
The Territory recorded its first two cases of the virus this week, while more than 100 persons are in self-quarantine and nine are awaiting results from the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in Trinidad.
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These doctors pushing this agenda, there’s people all around the world suing because their love ones are being labeled victims of covid 19 when they died from other causes, they need the numbers to pump fear into you guys they know with fear you guys will accept anything because most of you tough guys fear death
These celebrities are pushing this agenda because they know that’s all you see when your on Facebook and watching tv
Sad to say that this was suppose to happen but never thought I would be witnessing it with my own eyes
Customs and immigration officers, if they are on duty, the public and private sector waste management services, fuel distribution and delivery services, public and private sector, social care providers, the courts, senior magistrate and coroner, mortuary services, humanitarian support, emergency call handlers, freight courier and cargo distribution.”