Long Beach allows indoor hair salons to reopen as city reports 5 more coronavirus deaths

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. Alvarado was the first client back and the only client in the shop. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG) Hair salons and barber shops can resume indoor operations in Long Beach, Mayor Robert Garcia announced Wednesday, Sept. 2, aligning with countywide changes to health orders that allow those businesses to resume at 25% capacity. Hair salons and barber shops can still operate with unlimited capacity outdoors, as long as social distancing protocols are in place. And the city, also in alignment with the county, will update its health order to allow K-12 school districts to offer on-campus services for small cohorts of high-needs students, such as those with individualized education plans or those who need English as a Second Language instruction, Garcia said during a Wednesday afternoon briefing. But that doesn’t mean parents of those students can plan on sending their kids to school […]

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