Gathering Restriction Order | Two people are not allowed to play football

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Written by: Chen Shuxia

2020-12-01 21:28

Last update date: 2020-12-01 21:28

The epidemic situation in Hong Kong has become more severe. The gathering restriction will be tightened to 2 from tomorrow (2nd, Wednesday). Not all team sports will be exempted.

The Leisure and Cultural Services Department announced tonight (1st) that some recreational and cultural venues or facilities, including all public swimming pools and water sports centres under its management, will be suspended from tomorrow. Lifeguard services will also be suspended for beaches that are open in winter. Football pitches Free and paid venues for team sports such as basketball courts must also be temporarily closed.

In terms of cultural and entertainment facilities, performance venues include concert halls, theaters, performing arts halls, cultural activities halls, and performance venues, with auxiliary facilities such as rehearsal rooms, music rooms, dance studios, lecture rooms, event rooms, and conference rooms, as well as exhibition venues in the venues , Will only be open to rental groups for live or recorded events without live audiences, as well as rehearsals, until further notice.

All public swimming pools and water sports centres managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department will be temporarily closed from tomorrow.

The gazetted beaches originally scheduled to open in winter will be suspended from lifeguard services on the same day, including Deep Water Bay Beach, Clear Water Bay Second Beach, Silverstrand Beach and Golden Beach.

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Regarding recreational venues, all public swimming pools and water sports centres managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department will be temporarily closed from tomorrow.

The gazetted beaches originally scheduled to open in winter will be suspended from lifeguard services on the same day, including Deep Water Bay Beach, Clear Water Bay Second Beach, Silverstrand Beach and Golden Beach.

The changing rooms and shower facilities at all gazetted beaches will also be temporarily closed to reduce the risk of virus transmission.

The spokesman reminded members of the public not to swim or gather at the beach to avoid accidents.

Free and paid venues for team sports will also be temporarily closed from tomorrow, including hard-surface football, grass football, baseball, rugby, cricket, basketball, volleyball, netball, handball, hockey, and Roller hockey fields, etc., to prevent crowds from gathering, and the above facilities will be closed one after another.

In addition, some recreational facilities, including auditoriums, billiards facilities and enhanced cleaning measures, will also be suspended.

At the same time, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department will continue to suspend the approval of dancing activities in indoor facilities and continue to close some recreational facilities, including barbecue grounds, indoor children's playrooms and Pui O camp, until further notice.

The remaining indoor and outdoor sports premises of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department can only conduct group training or classrooms, but each group shall not exceed two persons. There shall be a distance of at least 1.5 meters or effective separation between groups. In dance studios, activity rooms, and multi-purpose activities When conducting group training/classes in facilities such as rooms, each training group or class including coaches shall not exceed two persons (that is, coaches can only teach one-to-one).

A spokesperson for the Leisure and Cultural Services Department reminded the public to still pay attention to social distancing. They must wear masks before and after sports in outdoor recreational venues, and indoor venue users must wear masks at all times.

The Leisure and Cultural Services Department will continue to suspend accepting and processing reservation applications for booking indoor facilities for dance activities, public swimming pools and water sports centres; its amphitheaters and recreational venues for non-designated activities and free recreational and sports venue sales activities, and traffic safety Booking applications for schools or groups in the city until further notice.

For refunds caused by the above arrangements, the hirer can fill in the refund application form and submit it together with the original of the use permit or mail it to the district leisure service offices of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department or the counters of the relevant recreational venues.

The refund application form can be downloaded from the LCSD website.

In order to reduce the large number of refund applications due to short-term closure of venues during the epidemic, and to increase the time for refunds, starting tomorrow, the time for booking facilities for "Recreation Link" services (including counters, online reservations and self-service stations) will be temporarily increased from ten. Change to seven days until further notice.

Regarding recreational and sports activities, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department will suspend all activities held in public swimming pools, water sports centres, gymnasiums, activity rooms and dance studios in public swimming pools, water sports centres, indoor gymnasiums, and suspend all activities from tomorrow (December 2). Snooker and some inter-team training classes and fun days, including football, baseball, non-collision rugby, basketball, volleyball, handball and hockey.

In addition, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department also suspends accepting applications for the above-mentioned activities and arranges full or partial refunds for the affected participants of the fee-based activities.

In terms of cultural facilities, from tomorrow, the main facilities of the performance venues under the management of the LCSD include concert halls, theaters, performing arts halls, cultural activities halls and performance halls, and auxiliary facilities such as rehearsal rooms, music rooms, dance studios, lecture rooms, and event rooms And conference rooms, etc., as well as the exhibition venues within the venue, will only be open to rental groups for live or recorded performances or activities without live audiences, as well as rehearsals for professional groups.

Performers must wear masks when feasible. If performers cannot wear masks during the rehearsal/event, they must be tested for COVID-19 within 72 hours before the first rehearsal/event, and after holding a negative test result, In order to participate in related activities.

In addition, an updated negative test result must be provided every 10 days depending on the number of rehearsal/event days.

All public events held in outdoor rental facilities will be suspended.

The URBTIX box office and the attached self-service ticket machine at the performance venue will be temporarily closed on the same day. URBTIX will maintain online and mobile application ticket purchase and ticketing hotline services.

Refunds and ticket refunds due to the closure of cultural facilities will be arranged later.

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