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Friday, July 25, 2025

List of essential services that can remain open

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Guardian Media
1542 days ago
20210504

This is the list of en­ti­ties that can re­main open un­der the cur­rent lock­down, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est pub­lic health reg­u­la­tions:

(a) su­per­mar­kets, gro­ceries, mar­kets, green gro­cers, re­tail mem­ber­ship dis­count stores, bak­eries, poul­try de­pots, fish stalls or shops, fruit stalls or shops, veg­etable stalls or shops, “par­lours” and “cor­ner shops”, pro­vid­ed that not more than fifty per cent of the es­tab­lish­ment’s or­di­nary re­tail ca­pac­i­ty is sur­passed at any time dur­ing op­er­at­ing hours;

(b) banks, fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions, non-banks, re­mit­tance fa­cil­i­ties, Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion, Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board, Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board and its agents, cred­it unions, in­sur­ance com­pa­nies and ser­vices, bro­kers and cap­i­tal mar­ket com­pa­nies and re­tail ser­vices in the pro­cess­ing and main­te­nance of sys­tems for pro­cess­ing of fi­nan­cial and in­sur­ance trans­ac­tions and ser­vices (e.g. in­for­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy, pay­ment, clear­ing and set­tle­ment, whole­sale fund­ing, in­sur­ance ser­vices and cap­i­tal mar­kets ac­tiv­i­ties) and the pro­vi­sion of sup­port for fi­nan­cial op­er­a­tions, such as ser­vices in re­la­tion to staffing, trans­ac­tions, da­ta, tech­nol­o­gy and se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tions cen­tres;

(c) re­tail­ers for news­pa­pers and me­dia hous­es;

(d) hard­ware stores in­clud­ing plumb­ing es­tab­lish­ments and re­tail elec­tri­cal stores and elec­tri­cal es­tab­lish­ments in sup­port of the gen­er­a­tion, trans­mis­sion and dis­tri­b­u­tion of elec­tric pow­er;

(e) es­tab­lish­ments that ser­vice ap­pli­ances and elec­tron­ics;

(f) pe­tro­le­um sta­tions and con­ve­nience marts at­tached there­to;

(g) es­tab­lish­ments that sup­port re­tail, sale and ser­vices of: (i) re­frig­er­a­tion sys­tems and prod­ucts; (ii) the avi­a­tion and mar­itime sec­tor in­clud­ing air­craft, ma­rine ves­sels and the equip­ment and in­fra­struc­ture that en­ables op­er­a­tions that en­com­pass move­ment of car­go and pas­sen­gers; (iii) re­tail­ers that sup­port air trans­porta­tion, air traf­fic con­trollers, ramp per­son­nel, avi­a­tion se­cu­ri­ty and avi­a­tion man­age­ment; (iv) the main­te­nance and op­er­a­tion of car­go by air trans­porta­tion, in­clud­ing flight crews, main­te­nance, air­port op­er­a­tions and oth­er on- and off-air­port fa­cil­i­ties work­ers; (v) the re­pair of ships and the stor­age and de­liv­ery of goods at, or from, ports, docks, wharves, stor­age fa­cil­i­ties and ware­hous­es op­er­at­ed in con­nec­tion with ports, docks or wharves; (vi) the pub­lic trans­porta­tion by wa­ter-taxi, fer­ry, mo­tor ve­hi­cle, bus, in­clud­ing bus­es op­er­at­ed by the Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vices Cor­po­ra­tion; (vii) au­to­mo­biles in­clud­ing re­pair and main­te­nance fa­cil­i­ties; (vi­ii) the man­age­ment of haz­ardous and waste ma­te­ri­als; (ix) pack­ag­ing and bot­tling of items; (x) postal and ship­ping ser­vices; (xi) food pro­cess­ing fa­cil­i­ties; (xii) live­stock, poul­try, seafood slaugh­ter fa­cil­i­ties at pet and an­i­mal feed pro­cess­ing fa­cil­i­ties; (xi­ii) hu­man food fa­cil­i­ties pro­duc­ing by-prod­ucts for an­i­mal food and bev­er­age pro­duc­tion fa­cil­i­ties; (xiv) an­i­mal and fish food, feed and in­gre­di­ent pro­duc­tion, pack­ag­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion, man­u­fac­tur­ing, pack­ag­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion of vet­eri­nary drugs; (xv) of vet­eri­nary health, man­u­fac­tur­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion of an­i­mal med­ical ma­te­ri­als, an­i­mal vac­cines, an­i­mal drugs, feed in­gre­di­ents, feed and bed­ding, etc., trans­porta­tion of live an­i­mals, an­i­mal med­ical ma­te­ri­als, trans­porta­tion of de­ceased an­i­mals for dis­pos­al, rais­ing of an­i­mals for food, an­i­mal pro­duc­tion op­er­a­tions, slaugh­ter and pack­ing plants and as­so­ci­at­ed reg­u­la­to­ry and gov­ern­ment work­force; (xvi) in sup­port of con­struc­tion re­lat­ing to agri­cul­tur­al and food pro­duc­tion in­clud­ing land prepa­ra­tion and any ac­tiv­i­ty re­lat­ed to agri­cul­ture and/or food pro­duc­tion;

(h) re­tail health ser­vices such as– (i) pub­lic and pri­vate hos­pi­tals, lab­o­ra­to­ries, in­fir­maries, nurs­ing homes and hos­pices, fu­ner­al homes, cre­ma­to­ria and bur­ial grounds; (ii) phar­ma­cies and hos­pi­tals; (iii) the pro­vi­sion of med­ical sup­plies to phar­ma­cies and hos­pi­tals in­clud­ing san­i­tary and hy­giene prod­ucts; (iv) the pro­vi­sion of den­tal, op­to­met­ric, opthal­mo­log­ic, phys­i­cal ther­a­py and oc­cu­pa­tion­al ther­a­py;

(i) re­tail en­er­gy ser­vices such as– (i) IT and OT tech­nol­o­gy for EMS (En­er­gy Man­age­ment Sys­tems) and Su­per­vi­so­ry Con­trol and Da­ta Ac­qui­si­tion (SCA­DA) sys­tems and util­i­ty da­ta cen­tres; (ii) Cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty, cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty risk man­age­ment and back-up da­ta tech­nol­o­gy; (iii) veg­e­ta­tion and traf­fic man­age­ment; and (iv) en­vi­ron­men­tal re­me­di­a­tion/mon­i­tor­ing, in­stru­men­ta­tion, pro­tec­tion and con­trol;

(j) es­tab­lish­ments that sup­port re­tail, sale and ser­vices in the pe­tro­le­um in­dus­tries such as– (i) pe­tro­le­um sta­tions and con­ve­nience marts at­tached there­to; (ii) pe­tro­le­um prod­uct stor­age, pipeline, ma­rine trans­port, ter­mi­nals, road trans­port; (iii) crude oil stor­age fa­cil­i­ties, pipeline and ma­rine trans­port; (iv) pe­tro­le­um re­fin­ery fa­cil­i­ties; (v) pe­tro­le­um se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tions cen­tres and sup­port emer­gency re­sponse ser­vices; (vi) pe­tro­le­um op­er­a­tions con­trol rooms or cen­tres; (vii) pe­tro­le­um drilling, ex­trac­tion, pro­duc­tion, pro­cess­ing, re­fin­ing, ter­mi­nal op­er­a­tions, trans­port­ing and re­tail for use as end-use fu­els or feed­stocks for chem­i­cal man­u­fac­tur­ing; (vi­ii) com­pa­nies that pro­vide ser­vices to oil and gas ser­vices; and (ix) on­shore and off­shore op­er­a­tions for main­te­nance and emer­gency re­sponse;

(k) es­tab­lish­ments that sup­port re­tail, sale and ser­vices in the nat­ur­al gas, propane and petro­chem­i­cal in­dus­tries such as– (i) nat­ur­al gas trans­mis­sion and dis­tri­b­u­tion pipelines, in­clud­ing com­pres­sor sta­tions; (ii) un­der­ground stor­age of nat­ur­al gas; (iii) nat­ur­al gas pro­cess­ing plants and those that deal with nat­ur­al gas liq­uids; (iv) Liq­ue­fied Nat­ur­al Gas (LNG) fa­cil­i­ties; (v) nat­ur­al gas se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tions cen­tres, nat­ur­al gas op­er­a­tions dis­patch and con­trol rooms or cen­tres and nat­ur­al gas emer­gency re­sponse and cus­tomer emer­gen­cies, in­clud­ing nat­ur­al gas leak calls; (vi) drilling, pro­duc­tion, pro­cess­ing, re­fin­ing and trans­port­ing nat­ur­al gas for use as end-use fu­els, feed­stocks for chem­i­cal man­u­fac­tur­ing, petro­chem­i­cal prod­ucts or use in elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion; (vii) propane gas dis­patch and con­trol rooms and emer­gency re­sponse and cus­tomer emer­gen­cies, in­clud­ing propane leak calls; (vi­ii) propane gas ser­vice main­te­nance and restora­tion, in­clud­ing call cen­tres; (ix) pro­cess­ing, re­fin­ing and trans­port­ing nat­ur­al liq­uids, in­clud­ing propane gas, for use as end-use fu­els or feed­stocks for chem­i­cal man­u­fac­tur­ing; and (x) propane gas stor­age, trans­mis­sion and dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­tres;

(l) es­tab­lish­ments that sup­port re­tail, sale and ser­vices in the chem­i­cal ser­vices sec­tor such as– (i) chem­i­cal and in­dus­tri­al gas sup­ply chains, chem­i­cal man­u­fac­tur­ing plants, lab­o­ra­to­ries and dis­tri­b­u­tion fa­cil­i­ties; (ii) tank truck clean­ing fa­cil­i­ties; and (iii) the pro­duc­tion of pro­tec­tive clean­ing and med­ical so­lu­tions, per­son­al pro­tec­tive equip­ment and pack­ag­ing that pre­vents the con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of food, wa­ter, med­i­cine and oth­er prod­ucts;

(m) es­tab­lish­ments that sup­port re­tail, sale and ser­vices in the pro­duc­tion and trans­porta­tion of chlo­rine and al­ka­li man­u­fac­tur­ing, sin­gle-use plas­tics and pack­ag­ing that pre­vents the con­t­a­m­i­na­tion or sup­ports the con­tin­ued man­u­fac­ture of food, wa­ter, med­i­cine and oth­er es­sen­tial prod­ucts, in­clud­ing glass con­tain­er man­u­fac­tur­ing;

(n) es­tab­lish­ments that sup­port re­tail, sale and ser­vices in the con­struc­tion sec­tor;

(o) es­tab­lish­ments that sup­port ser­vices in the in­for­ma­tion, com­mu­ni­ca­tion and tech­nol­o­gy sec­tors;

(p) es­tab­lish­ments that sup­port re­tail, sale and ser­vices in wa­ter and sewage;

(q) es­tab­lish­ments that sup­port re­tail, sale and ser­vices in fire and safe­ty sup­plies.


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