The Supreme Committee has listed activities excluded from the decision to ban commercial activities from 4 am to 7 pm during the period (May 8 -15) and some during the night lockdown.

Restaurants, cafes

Restaurants, cafes, and street vendors are allowed to practice their work during the ban period with no customers inside. Handling food and delivery are permitted during the above-mentioned period.

Any commercial activity not mentioned within the excluded activities may allow its owner to operate inside the facility or store without allowing customers to enter, but they can handle goods or make delivery through licensed companies.

Exemptions (7 pm - 4 am)

The groups excluded from the decision to prevent movement of individuals and vehicles from May, 8 to 15 from 7 pm to 4 am are health workers, emergency vehicles and emergency services for electricity and water services only, workers in private hospitals and in pharmacies during the night shift

The categories excluded from the decision to prevent the movement of individuals and vehicles include workers in ports and airports, workers in trucks of all kinds of 3 tons and more, water tanks and sewage transport tanks, and workers in factories with no permission to move outside the factory during the period of prevention.

Also, it includes workers in unloading and loading operations in factories and warehouses without moving outside the factory or warehouse during the period of the ban, workers in fuel stations on a shift system via the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion, marketing companies, and workers in the oil fields.

Media staff exempted

Other categories excluded also from the decision to prevent the movement of individuals and vehicles include workers in public and private press and media institutions whose nature of their work requires them to attend those institutions during the banning period, and the Ministry of Information will provide them with licenses needed. Health and technical inspectors judicial officers with permits obtained from their official employers. Fishermen, beekeepers, and workers in food laboratories and a permit for them is issued by the Ministry of Agricultural, Fisheries, and Water.

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