Tackling COVID-19 : Transporters, Hotel Actors Appreciate Support Measures

President Paul Biya in the instructions the Prime Minister, Joseph Dion Ngute communicated during a special statement on April 30, 2020, decided to put in place easing and support measures  in order to relieve the sectors hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic.  
The Head of State’s decision came after the study he instructed  to be conducted to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the national economy and to determine the accompanying measures  to be implemented to support sectors in difficulty, as well as households that are most in need. It emerged from the study that the 20 restrictive measures government was implementing to halt the spread of coronavirus in Cameroon greatly affected negatively the transport, hotel and catering sectors and  trade in general.
The hard hit sectors therefore attracted the attention of the President of the Republic in the easing and support measures that went operational since May 1, 2020.  With regard to the transport sector, the Head of State decided the lifting of the measure reducing the mandatory number of passengers in all public transport bus and taxis. He however, maintained  the compulsory wearing of protective masks and prohibited overloading. He also decided the exemption from the withholding tax and from parking fees for taxis and motorbikes, as well as from axle tax for the second quarter. The measure, it was stated, could be extended to the rest of 2020. In  the hotel and cataring sectors, President Paul Biya decided the exemption  from the Tourist Tax  for th...