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T Sarmina gets a haircut from barber Jimmy Nguyen at Floyd’s 99 Barbershops in Long Beach on Thursday, Aug. 13. 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. 300×250 image ad 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, acknowledged the news, but said city and county officials still must determine for themselves whether allowing those businesses to resume indoor operations would be safe. “There is only one type of business that the county of Los Angeles […]
