Facilities breaching vaccine rules to face KD 5k fine

Facilities breaching vaccine rules to face KD 5k fine

KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality teams were yesterday inspecting shops, malls, coffee shops and gyms in different governorates to make sure only people who received COVID-19 vaccines were allowed to enter, or the facility would be fined with KD 5,000. The inspections were in compliance with a government decision to only allow vaccinated persons to enter these facilities starting yesterday.

Director of inspection and services follow up department at Ahmadi office, Saad Al-Shaiba, said teams were working round-the-clock to make sure only vaccinated persons enter shopping malls, restaurants, salons and coffee shops. He said owners of the facilities were complying with the government's decision, which was part of efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus.

Al-Shaiba said the Municipality carried out an awareness campaign before execution of the decision, so the teams would take all legal measures against people violating the decision. Sulaiman Al-Ghais, Director of violations at Municipality's Al-Jahra office, said teams in Al-Jahra were accompanied by a police force in order to enforce the implementation of the government decision.

Al-Ghais, speaking to KUNA, commended managements of shopping malls and gyms to make sure non-vaccinated persons were not allowed to enter the facilities. He said a facility would be fined KD 5,000 if it