Friday April 19, after the closure of the city of Jérémie https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-30496-haiti-news-zapping.html , the local authorities in the South Department took the initiative to close all roads giving access to the department in order to protect the population against the spread of Covid-19.

Traffic in inter-departmental public transport vehicles is formally suspended for a period of fifteen (15 days)

Since the identification of the first cases of contamination of the coronavirus in the country, the department of the South remains one of the regions having recorded no case of Covid-19 to date, according to information provided by the Ministry of Public Health.

The Haitian National Police (PNH) intends to make every effort to support the authorities in the application of this provision, said the Divisional Commissioner, Jacques Joël Orival, Departmental Director of the PNH in the South.

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HL/ HaitiLibre