Hanoi allows karaokes, bars, massage venues to reopen from April 8

Foreigners drinking beer in the ‘backpacker’ street Ta Hien, downtown Hanoi. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi’s authorities will allow the reopening of karaokes, bars,massage venues and gaming centres from April 8, according to the city’s latestCOVID-19 adaptation plan released on April 6 afternoon.

These places, consideredposing high risks for coronavirus spreading, are usually the first to be closedwhen a COVID-19 outbreak occurs and the last to reopen when it eases.

They have been orderedto shut down in the capital since late April last year in response to theemergence of the fourth wave of infections in the country.

The venues must ensureCOVID-19 prevention and control measures as per healthauthority guidelines and advise customers with suspected COVID-19 symptoms– fever, coughing, breathing difficulties and loss of taste and smell, forexample – to avoid using the services, and instead seek medicalinstructions from local health authorities.

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) 

District- andtownship-level people’s committees must cooperate with authorities toinspect these service venues in compliance with COVID-19 safety guidelines andother legal regulations.

With these servicesreopening and students in the first to sixth grades returning to school onApril 6, Hanoi has resumed nearly all socio-economic activities, thanks to ahigh vaccination rate with about 16 million doses of COVID-19 vaccinesadministered so far.

From 6pm on April 5 to 6pm on April 6, Hanoi recorded 4,037 coronavirusinfections, raising the total number of cases since the fourth wave of the pandemicin late April 2021 to 1.51 million./.

VNA