The Autonomous Service of Sanitary Comptroller closed in the municipality of Libertador de Mérida, eight commercial establishments for not complying with the sanitary norms of social responsibility for the prevention of the spread of covid-19, stipulated in the Official Gazette No. 41.891.
For this procedure, the comptrollers with authorities of Corpo Mérida were deployed throughout the city together with the Zodi and public order organizations, the Ombudsman's Office, Sundee, Sunagro and the Ministry of Popular Power for Commerce.
Alba Riera, director of the Sanitary Comptroller in the Andean entity, reported that in the inspections they detected premises where they sell food without sanitary permission and false food handling certificates; as well as people eating inside an establishment.
Likewise, during the tours an open sale of oils and lubricants was detected, which are not in the prioritized economic areas.
Given this, he indicated that the managers and owners of these businesses were fined with the payment of 5 petros and additional must appear at the headquarters of the Comptroller next Monday to be oriented on the rule against the pandemic.
Riera reminded the Meridans that they are obliged to comply with security measures so that they do not catch the virus and that this week the quarantine is strict, therefore they should not go out into the streets without justification and only shops should open their doors prioritized.
