What stores remain open, and what stores have closed during CB

2020年04月24日 15:30

What will continue to operate

Supermarkets, convenience stores, grocery stores and wet markets (except convenience stores in parks)

Pharmacies and Personal Care Items
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) establishments with MOH-registered in-house TCM practitioner(s) are allowed to open for consultation and dispensing of related TCM medication only (No walk-in retail allowed)
Hardware stores
Opticians, by appointment only. No walk-in customers allowed.
Critical food services, including hawker centres, food courts, coffee shops, those that sell hot/cooked snacks and bread. These can continue to remain open for takeaway and delivery services only.

What will be closed

All non-essential services
Standalone F&B outlets that predominantly retail the following:

i. Beverages, including bubble tea, fruit juice, smoothies, alcoholic beverages, coffee, tea;
ii. Packaged snacks and loose snacks including nuts, potato chips, popcorn, bak kwa, cheese;
iii. Desserts, including red/ green bean soup, grass jelly, ice cream, yoghurt, cakes, cupcakes, waffles, chocolate, cookies, sweet pastries, donuts;
All hairdressing and barber services
Pet supplies stores must close physical stores, can operate online sales and delivery

Retail laundry services must close their physical stores, except unmanned stores. Allowed to provide online sales and delivery.

For those that remain physically open, precautionary measures must be in place

For workplaces that need to be open, employers must implement safe distancing measures to reduce physical interactions by:

• Reducing the need for and duration of physical interactions;

• Staggering working hours;

• Postponing all group events ; and

• Implementing shift work and/or split team arrangements

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