According to the Official Dispatch No. 2718/UBND-VX dated August 15, 2021, Ho Chi Minh People’s Committee requests every citizen in the City to continue limited going out as much as possible, shops and business establishments must continue to suspend operations in the time frame from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. daily, except for the following cases:
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- Those who go to the vaccination site or emergency aid site, task forces of Covid-19 prevention and control or supporting forces at the coordination request of specialized agencies and local authorities.
- Employees of supermarkets, price stabilization stores, and convenience stores who are allowed to travel on roads to prepare logistics, arrange goods, and clean and disinfect business areas (according to Official Dispatch No. 2654/UBND-KT dated August 09, 2021).
- The flight crews who go on business trips according to the plan of the licensed flights and the officers and employees of the affiliates of the Vietnam Airlines Corporation in Southern Region to perform the duty of serving the flights carrying cargoes, medical equipment, vaccines.
- Employees of enterprises that produce and provide essential services (food, equipment, medical supplies); delivery people of medical equipment and supplies such as oxygen cylinders for people infected with COVID-19 who are isolated and treated at home (asymptomatic and mild Covid cases), facilities that receive and treat COVID-19 patients.
- Employees of units that cater for charity kitchens, treatment facilities, isolation facilities, hospitals, and health facilities in service of the pandemic prevention and control.
- Officials, reporters, editors of newspapers and radio stations performing political tasks in the city, including the publication of newspapers.
- Postal services and forces performing the task of providing KT1 postal services (serving Party and State agencies, confidential documents).
- Urban sanitation workers; forces in charge of failures of: power, water supply, information system, traffic works, and technical infrastructure.
- Means of transport of essential goods; means of transport that carry forces performing Covid prevention and control; shuttle buses carrying workers to enterprises that are practicing “1 route - 2 destinations”; vehicles that deliver supplies, goods of logistics enterprises that support production, export and import, medical devices.
Cars that give medical support (ambulances, cars that carry patients), taxis licensed by the Department of Transport of Vietnam to transport people in necessary cases; drivers and service staff on these vehicles.
- Petrol and oil retail stations at 12 main gateways of the City.
Official Dispatch No. 2718/UBND-VX issued by the Ho Chi Minh People’s Committee on August 15, 2021.
