Virus Outbreak: Taichung requests person hosting bars and dance halls close

The Taichung City Government is asking all host or hostess bars and dance admission to suspend operations included in an administrative order from the Central Epidemic Command Middle (CECC), the city stated yesteryear.

The CECC on Wed issued the order after a hostess in Taipei analyzed positive for SARS-CoV-2, herpes that causes COVID-19.

Individuals as well as organizations the fact that breach the order facial area fines associated with NT$3, 000 to NT$15, 000, throughout accordance with the Contagious Disease Control Act (傳染病防治法), the municipality said.


성남 풀싸롱 and participants of the Taichung Town Government get together outdoors a new nightclub around Taichung in an undated photograph.
Image courtesy involving the Taichung Area Federal

Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) said that similar businesses — KTVs, saunas, bars, nightclubs, “special service” cafes and arcades — are to continue in order to follow prevention guidelines, such as wearing face masks, consuming temperatures and observing public distancing.

The government is also enforcing new regulations for these establishments to record the names and telephone numbers connected with customers upon entrance.


Lu stated that the new rules are being put in place definitely not just because of typically the hostess case in Taipei, and also because of equivalent cases in past times.

The substantial client turnover in all these corporations makes it to be able to track individual customers, including to the difficulty of disorder prevention and improving the chance of local cluster infection, Lu said.

The town recognizes the particular concerns coming from the management of the companies, but it requires these people for their understanding and even conformity in these trying times, Lu said.

Organizations need take special methods to keep up public health while in the COVID-19 outbreak, Lu added.

Meanwhile, hostess discos on Wednesday closed first for establishment-wide disinfection immediately after the Taipei Department connected with Health visited regarding this personnel.

Hostesses typically are available from third-party companies in addition to do not have standing up contracts with the hostess cafes themselves, a reference said, including that this hostess who screened constructive had been dispatched to other bars.