Taipei, Nov. 1 (CNA) Licensed entertainment venues in Taipei that do not employ hosts or hostesses will be allowed to conditionally reopen from Tuesday, the city’s Deputy Mayor Huang Shan-shan (黃珊珊) announced Monday.

City authorities began accepting applications from venues including nightclubs, dance halls and massage parlors on Monday, which would allow them to reopen for business by Tuesday at the earliest, Huang said at a press conference.

Adult entertainment venues that employ hosts and hostesses, meanwhile, will be allowed to apply to reopen from Nov. 9 and begin accepting customers from Nov. 16, she added.

The city government’s announcement was made in accordance with previous guidelines from the Central Epidemics Control Center (CECC) issued on Oct. 28, which gave dates for when businesses that have been closed since mid-May following a spike in domestic COVID-19 cases could reopen.

According to the CECC, despite the reopening, both employees and customers are required to have at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, administered 14 days prior to entering such venues.

Employees at these venues will also have to provide proof of a negative PCR or rapid screening test conducted within three days before offering services, the CECC said.

Those employees that have yet to be fully vaccinated will have to take one PCR or rapid screening test per week.

People working and visiting these venues will have to wear face masks at all times, the CECC underlined.

In addition, both patrons and employees will have to undergo a temperature check and meet identification requirements at the entrances of venues.

Asked how the city government will make sure employees and patrons have been vaccinated, Huang said operators of these venues will have to provide a list of their employees to the government for checking.

Customers, meanwhile, will have to present their vaccination records at the entrances of venues before they are allowed to enter, she added.