BEIJING, Nov 18 (Reuters) – China made a further
incremental relaxation of rules to combat the spread of COVID-19
on Friday, removing limits on numbers of people allowed at
theatres and events such as concerts and music festivals in
low-risk areas without outbreaks.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued the revised
guidelines to travel agencies, entertainment and performance
venues. A government statement said local administrators should
improve the accuracy of their prevention and control measures
and should not shut down entertainment venues down at will.
The specific measures are mostly in line with China’s latest
easing of COVID rules, but could be a bright spot for
entertainment and tourism firms that have been hammered by a
near three-year strict zero-COVID policy.
Places such as KTVs, internet cafes and offline board game
venues are allowed to operate under normalised COVID prevention
rules in low risk regions, which means as long as they apply
certain COVID prevention rules, they can open their business as
usual, according to the government.
(Reporting by Albee Zhang, Bernard Orr; Editing by Shri
Navaratnam & Simon Cameron-Moore)
