HCM City’s ‘new normal’ after 1 month of reopening

HCM City’s ‘new normal’ after 1 month of reopening.

In HCM City, the country’s COVID-19 epicenter, most activities have resumed and the economy seems to be recovering amid its so-called ‘new normal’ a month after it lifted restrictions on October 1.

Checkpoints and barriers have been removed, people can go to work without requiring travel permits, and people from other provinces can come to the city to work easily thanks to the easing of travel restrictions.

More than 110 out of 234 traditional markets have reopened, with arrangements made to ensure social distancing by customers and vendors.

Mãi said more than 93 percent of businesses in industrial parks, processing and export zones, and hi-tech parks have reopened, and more than 70 percent of workers have returned to work.

More and more businesses outside of the parks and household businesses are reopening as well.

Dine-in services are again allowed since October 28 after a five-month ban though restaurants are restricted to half their capacity.

Several restaurants in District 7 and Thủ Đức City are allowed to serve alcoholic beverages on a trial basis.

People are also able to visit many other services such as barbershops and bookstores.

Services that remain closed such as karaoke and massage parlors, night clubs and bars were not essential and posed a high risk of spreading the disease, and the city needed to reopen them carefully.

The city’s index of industrial production rose by 23.6 percent in October from September, but manufacturing in the first 10 months was 16 percent down year-on-year.

More than 78 percent of the city’s adult population has received two shots of COVID vaccination.

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Vietnam news

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