The Votes Are In!
2023 Readers' Choice is back, bigger and better than ever!
View Winners → 
Business Sep 17, 2020
by
share with
Humberto Alvarado gets a haircut for the first time in five months, from Lu Garcia Reynoso at Barber Society in Gardena on Monday, August 17, 2020. Barber Society is one of about 300 salons throughout California, that decided to open operations on Monday in defiance of state and county public health orders amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG) State officials are no longer prohibiting hair salons and barbershops from operating indoors in Long Beach and Los Angeles County as a whole — but that doesn’t mean those indoor spaces can start reopening. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a new framework on Friday, Aug. 28, for tracking counties’ progress on managing the coronavirus. The state has done away with its monitoring list and instead has assigned counties different colors — ranging from purple, representing widespread transmission, to yellow, representing minimal transmission — based on their positive testing rate and their case rate per 100,000 people. Los Angeles County, including Long Beach, is in the purple category. But the switch included one significant change for business reopenings: Indoor hair salons and barber shops are allowed to operate for every color grouping. Mayor Robert Garcia, in a Friday afternoon briefing, […]
Click here to view original web page at www.presstelegram.com
More from Business
