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Live music, theatre and other performances to resume after Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong
- Authorities to ease restrictions on stricken entertainment industry from October 1
- Venues will only be allowed to be half-full and spacing needed between performers and audience
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Live performances at entertainment venues could restart from next week’s Mid-Autumn Festival but other social-distancing measures would remain in place, as Hong Kong authorities confirmed three new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday.
The announcement will come as a relief to the coronavirus-stricken industry, but the new rules also require adequate spacing or partitions between performers and the audience.
Only half of event seats at most can be sold, and no more than four adjoining seats in a row will be allowed.
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Another tweak in the rules includes allowing public bowling alleys and snooker halls to open all their lanes and tables, if they are able to ensure adequate distancing or partitioning between those facilities.
The city’s leader, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, on Tuesday announced that most social-distancing measures, including limiting the number of people allowed to dine out together or gather in public to four, would remain in place until October 1, the date of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day.
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