New opening hours for retail outlets and markets reopen

At today’s meeting of the Emergency Situations Headquarters, the Commander issued an order requiring all owners of retail outlets in the Municipality of Kula to limit opening hours for customers in retail outlets from 21 April 2020, as follows:

• from Tuesday, 21 April, from 07:00 to 17:30;
• Friday, 24 April 2020, for citizens over 65 years of age, from 04:00 to 07:00;
• Friday, 24 April 2020, for other citizens, from 08:00 to 17:30;
• Saturday and Sunday are non-working days;
• that there is no prolonged waiting outside or inside the retail premises;
• that no more than one person may be inside the retail outlet at a time; the number of customers may not exceed one per ten square metres; and
• to regularly disinfect their premises.

A decision was also adopted that market trading may resume in open-air and indoor market spaces, with no restrictions on product types, provided that protective measures are observed:

• that there is no prolonged waiting in front of the market stall;
• that no more than one person may be in front of the counter at a time;
• use of a protective face mask and protective gloves;
• disinfection of the area around the sales stall.