Beauty salons, gyms reopen in India’s Maharashtra despite rising coronavirus cases

Record ID: 1559497

  • Title: Beauty salons, gyms reopen in India’s Maharashtra despite rising coronavirus cases
  • Date: 28th June 2020
  • Summary: PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA (JUNE 28, 2020) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) WORKER IN SALON WEARING FACE SHEILD AND MASK WALKING CUSTOMER SITTING WITH MASK ON VARIOUS STYLIST WITH MASK ON WASHING HAIR OF WOMAN STYLIST WEARING GLOVES STYLIST COMBING HAIR OF WOMAN VARIOUS OF STYLIST CUTTING HAIR OF CUSTOMERS (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) CUSTOMER AT SALON, MARSHAL, SAYING: "The experience was very nice. They provided me with this mask and use-and-throw cloth (cover) and all the stylists are wearing a mask and plastic shield. Initially, there was fear and we were thinking about whether it will be safe to visit a salon. So, I called up the salon person and she asked me to come over and see it for myself and when I visited, I felt really nice. They are making sure that good safety standards are being followed. It's good and they also checked our temperature when we entered." MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA (JUNE 28, 2020) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) VARIOUS OF STYLIST WEARING PROTECTIVE SUIT AND COMBING AND CUTTING HAIR OF CUSTOMER VARIOUS OF ANOTHER STYLIST WEARING FACE SHIELD AND MASK AND CUTTING HAIR OF CUSTOMER MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA (JUNE 27, 2020) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) SIGNBOARD AT ENTRANCE OF GYM READING (English): "POSTURE FITNESS" VARIOUS OF GYM AREA WITH FITNESS EQUIPMENT GYM OWNER AND FITNESS TRAINER ABHISHEK PATIL STANDING ALONG WITH MAN (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) GYM OWNER AND FITNESS TRAINER, ABHISHEK PATIL, SAYING: "The members will not be allowed to do workouts for more than 1.5 hours and after every 1.5 hours we will sanitise the entire gym. When the gym member will enter, our first procedure will be to check their body temperature and the person will be allowed an entry only when the temperature will be within the desired limits. We are not allowing them to use the same footwear they will come wearing and will ask them to remove that footwear outside the gym. Also, we have bought a shoe lamination machine." VARIOUS OF MAN EXERCISING AS PATIL INSTRUCTS VARIOUS OF PATIL SANITIZING HANDS
  • Embargoed: 12th July 2020 11:35
  • Keywords: Gym India Mumbai Salon coronavirus fitness infection lockdown reopening
  • Location: MUMBAI, PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA
  • City: MUMBAI, PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Health/Medicine
  • Reuters ID: LVA001CKAA8NJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: In one of the first signs of normalcy returning to the state, gyms and salons in India's western Maharashtra, one of the wort-hit with coronavirus, opened on Sunday (June 28) to customers.
    Maharashtra, home to India's financial hub of Mumbai has been the hardest hit by the pandemic, accounting for more than 25% of cases.
    India allowed several public places to reopen after the two-month-long closure earlier this month, however, the federal government extended the lockdown in high-risk zones.
    Though a sense of fear prevailed in the minds of the people on visiting public places, opening of salons and gyms did come as good news for the customers as they saw stylists taking all the safety measures.
    "Initially, there was fear and we were thinking about whether it will be safe to visit a salon. So, I called up the salon person and she asked me to come over and see it for myself and when I visited, I felt really nice. They are making sure that good safety standards are being followed," said a customer at a salon in Pune.
    Maharashtra reported some 67,615 active cases on Sunday, taking its tally up to 159,133 cases. It has recorded 7,273 deaths.
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