Three restaurants including repeat offender La Fragata, have been sanctioned for failing to comply with the restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Metropolitan Health Region Director, Israel Cedeño said Friday that two of the three premises were referred to the Bella Vista Health Center and were punished., the other went to his office for being a repeat offender.

“Yesterday I met with the legal representative and the owner of La Fragata]; the situation was presented to him. They are exercising their right to discharge and recourse for reconsideration, but the sanction is already in process, "said Cedeño, who did not advance the amount of the sanction because the process continues and the respective resolution will be issued on  Monday. However,  the fine can be upto $5,000

Last Wednesday the Ministry of Health (Minsa) reported that the owner of the La Fragata restaurant, located in Obarrio, was summoned by the Metropolitan Health Directorate after the initiation of an investigation into what happened on Tuesday night, January 26. on the premises, when the head of the Bella Vista community council, Christian Vieira Piad, surprised diners inside the restaurant, in breach of the health decree.

The decree that was breached is No. 62 of January 13, 2021, which in its article 1, applies the curfew and in its article 12 stipulates that restaurants cannot receive diners, since the service can only be provided through home deliveries.

The head of citizen care of the Bella Vista community council, Christian Vieira Piad, filed a complaint on Wednesday with the Primary Care Prosecutor, of the Public Ministry, about the events that occurred in La Fragata and requested that it be established the identity of those responsible for the corresponding criminal sanctions to be imposed, since they obstructed the work of an official, who appeared at the premises attending a complaint from the community