Vinh City: Market remains closed, people can use shopping cards once every 3 days to buy essential items
(Baonghean.vn) - The shopping card can be used 3 times a day. Citizens of any ward or commune can only shop at shopping centers, supermarkets, essential goods businesses, and points of sale organized by the ward or commune located in that ward or commune.
On the evening of September 5, Vinh City issued Plan No. 199/KH-UBND on "Implementing Decision No. 3243/QD-UBND dated September 5, 2021 of the People's Committee of Nghe An province on establishing isolation and social distancing areas to prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic" with many contents.
Accordingly, the citycontinue to suspend operationsLocal markets and food service establishments (including take-out) are not allowed to operate until further notice.
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| Markets in Vinh City continue to stop operating. Photo: Quang An |
The city allows shippers at licensed businesses to operate freight transport.back in action; the number of employees does not exceed 50% of the total number of delivery staff of the unit; continue to strictly prohibit freelance shippers.
People are allowed to go out to buy essential goods byuse a shopping cardAccordingly, the People's Committees of wards and communes print shopping cards according to the form, send them to the blocks and hamlets to distribute to all households, students, and workers renting houses in the area. There are 3 groups of cards: group I, group II, group III with pre-written dates, ensuring that they can go shopping once every 3 days. Cards are distributed to households in rotation according to the order of card groups (each household is only given 1 group of cards), ensuring that 3 adjacent households are not in the same group.
The shopping card can only be used once at one shopping location: shopping mall or supermarket or essential goods business establishments; in addition, the card can be used to shop at locations organized by the city or ward or commune (Based on actual conditions, the People's Committees of wards and communes can organize essential goods sales points that must ensure requirements on epidemic prevention and control).
Citizens of any ward or commune are only allowed to shop at shopping malls, supermarkets, essential goods businesses, and points of sale organized by the ward or commune located in that ward or commune. Shopping cards are allowed to be used to buy medicine.
Time for using shopping cards is regulated: Morning from 7:00 to 9:00; afternoon from 15:00 to 17:00 (Wards and communes are encouraged to flexibly arrange for people in different blocks to go shopping in the morning or afternoon to limit large gatherings during certain periods of time).
People are absolutely not allowed to use the card for any other purpose to go out; the authorities will increase strict handling of violations.
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| Shopping card. Photo: PV |
Citycontinue to pauseritual, religious and belief activities; stop all cultural, artistic, physical training, sports and entertainment activities in public places; do not organize wedding parties; For funerals: Do not let the funeral last more than 48 hours; only organize ceremonies within the family, no more than 20 people, do not organize a visitation ceremony and must ensure epidemic prevention and control work according to regulations. For cases of death due to infection or suspected infection of COVID-19, the body must be handled according to regulations.
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| The gateway checkpoints in Vinh City continue to be maintained. Photo: Quang An |
Vinh City coordinated with the Provincial Police to maintain a number of key checkpoints on some routes and areas with high risk of infection to provide guidance on disease prevention and control, and at the same time inspect, control and strictly handle violations according to regulations.