The Taichung City Authorities is asking all hostess bars and dance entrée to suspend operations included in an management order from the Central Epidemic Command Centre (CECC), the city said yesterday.

The CECC on Sunday issued the purchase after a hostess in Taipei tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, herpes that causes COVID-19.

Individuals or establishments that breach often the order encounter fines associated with NT$3, 000 to NT$15, 000, inside accordance with the Contagieux Disease Control Act (傳染病防治法), the municipality said.


Police officers and participants of the particular Taichung Town Government collect outside the house a nightclub throughout Taichung in an undated photograph.
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Taichung Superior Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) said that related businesses — KTVs, saunas, bars, nightclubs, “special service” cafes and arcades — are to continue to follow prevention guidelines, these as wearing masks, moving temperatures and seeing sociable distancing.


The government can also be improving new regulations for all those establishments to record the names and telephone numbers associated with clientele upon accessibility.

Lu said that the new restrictions are being apply not really just because of the particular host or hostess case in Taipei, but also because of similar cases previously.

The substantial buyer turnover from these types of organizations makes it difficult to track individual customers, putting to the difficulty of ailment prevention and growing the chance of local cluster infections, Lu said.

The area recognizes this concerns via the managing of those firms, however it asks them for their understanding and acquiescence in these trying occasions, Lu said.

Businesses need take special procedures to maintain public health while in the COVID-19 pandemic, Lu added.

Meanwhile, hostess cafes on Wednesday closed down early for establishment-wide disinfection following the Taipei Department of Health visited regarding the particular worker.

Hostesses typically occur from third-party companies together with do not have positioned contracts with the host or hostess night clubs themselves, a reference said, adding that the hostess who tried optimistic had been dispatched to bars.