77 Jeddah outlets shut for COVID-19 breaches

77 Jeddah outlets shut for COVID-19 breaches

JEDDAH: Authorities in Jeddah have shut down 77 commercial outlets for breaching coronavirus disease (COVID-19) protocols. Municipalities have stepped up their efforts to ensure compliance with COVID-19 safety measures designed to protect public health. The municipality of Jeddah governorate carried out 4, 347 inspection tours of commercial centers and facilities and identified 150 violations for issues related to overcrowding and the failure to effectively use the Tawakkalna app. Authority urged people to report any suspected breaches of COVID-19 regulations to the 940 call-center number. AHMEDABAD, India: At least 18 people, including two health care workers were killed in a fire at a COVID-19 hospital in the western Indian state of Gujarat late on Friday night, officials said on Saturday, in the country's latest deadly hospital accident. The fire started around midnight in the intensive care ward of the Patel Welfare Hospital, a designated COVID-19 facility, in Bharuch city, 115 miles (185 km) north of state's main commercial city, Ahmedabad"Sixteen patients and two staff members have died in the fire. Twelve of them died due to fire and smoke," said R. V. Chudasama, a superintendent of police in Bharuch. "Preliminary investigation shows the fire was caused because of a short circuit,"