Why your hair appointments will have to wait even in the yellow phase
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Hair, nail and massage appointments will have to wait even after a Pennsylvania county moves into the yellow phase in which coronavirus-related restrictions will begin to ease.
“Those facilities — such as hair salons, barbershops, nail salons, massage parlors — are not opening because it is impossible to practice social distancing when you have a hands-on treatment,” state Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine said Friday.
She gave the example of a hairdresser who has the virus but does not show symptoms and thus is unaware they have it.
“They would see perhaps one person an hour, eight people a day, working five or six days a week — they could expose a whole bunch of patients to covid-19,” she said. “Then those patients expose other patients, and that’s how we get clusters and outbreaks.”
Levine and Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday announced that 24 Northwestern and North-Central counties would move into yellow phase, which allows retail shops to reopen so long as social distancing guidelines remain in place.
Businesses like theaters, gyms and casinos, where staying 6 feet apart is not possible, cannot reopen until an area moves into the green phase. The green phase lifts all of the state’s restrictions, though residents will still have to follow state and federal guidelines regarding things like wearing masks.