HCM City schools to reopen from May 4, entertainment facilities remain closed
Schools across Ho Chi Minh City will welcome students back starting from May 4 after a three-and-a-half month break, while beauty spas and entertainment facilities will remain in shutdown.
Many restaurants in HCM City remain closed although social distancing measures are loosened (Source: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Schools across Ho Chi Minh City will welcome students back starting from May 4 after athree-and-a-half month break, while beauty spas and entertainment facilities willremain in shutdown.
Themunicipal People’s Committee has assigned the Departments of Education andTraining, and Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to make a plan on schoolreopening, which also includes detailed guidance to ensure COVID-19 preventionand control.
Accordingly,over 87,000 ninth-graders who are about to take their high school entranceexams, and over 63,000 12th-graders who will be taking their high schoolgraduation exams, will go back to school on May 4 and start normal classes thenext day.
Studentsfrom the fourth to eighth grades, and 10th and 11th graders will start classes fromMay 11.
Thosefrom the first to third grades will start classes the next day.
Kindergartenclasses will reopen between May 18 and June 1.
Meanwhile,on April 28, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Le Thanh Liemissued a document requiring all departments, sectors, districts, wards andcommunes to strictly follow Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s Directive No.19on continuing the implementation of COVID-19 prevention and control measures.
Specifically,the city asked for the continued suspension of beauty spas and entertainmentfacilities such as cinemas, theatres, bars, karaoke bars and beer clubs.
Allreligious activities, sports competitions and meetings with more than 30 peopleare also banned.
Theclosure will last until the People’s Committee issues a new announcement.
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Many restaurants in HCM City remain closed although social distancing measures are loosened (Source: VNA) 
