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General News of Thursday, 7 May 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

90% of Lagos restaurants obey social distancing order, LASG confirms

One of the inspected eateries One of the inspected eateries

90% of the restaurants in Lagos State have complied with the social distancing order, MyNigeria.com can confirm.

This is coming after officials of the Lagos State Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, led by the Honourable Commissioner, Pharmacist (Mrs.) Uzamat Akinbile-Yusuf, today embarked on a monitoring exercise of some Eateries and Restaurants in the State.

Recall that the State Governor allowed restaurants open based on the fact that they were expected to observe social distancing and allow only food deliveries. They were also asked to work from 9 am to 7 pm to be able to attend to the generality of Lagos residents.

The Commissioner revealed that the monitoring team visited about eight eateries within Ikeja and its environs, where they observed over 90 per cent compliance with the government's order.

She stressed that in places where compliance level was low, the officials took time to enlighten the operators on the expected standard of operation