The first county to see significant community spread of COVID-19, Santa Clara, has held back from much of the state's allowed business reopening. Gyms, hair salons, nail salons, indoor restaurants and schools are all still not allowed to open their doors.
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WATCH: Santa Clara Co. officials discuss reopening hair salons, nail salons and gyms
Starting Friday, nail salons, massage parlors and tattoo shops will be allowed to open in most parts of California. Hair salons have been open for weeks in some counties. But in a virtual press conference Wednesday, Santa Clara County officials made it clear that won't be the case in the South Bay.
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"The public health order remains the same," said spokesperson Betty Duong. "We do not currently have a reopening date."
"The beauty care industry and the nail salon industry is an industry that I grew up in," Duong added. "I have witnessed the hardships and challenges that many in our personal care industry are experiencing."
On the topic of broader reopening last month, Santa Clara County Public Health Director Sara Cody said, "We're not there yet."
"The conditions really haven't changed in our county," she said. "We don't suddenly have herd immunity, we don't suddenly have a vaccine, we have exactly the same conditions that we had in March. So that if we did ease up, we would see a brisk return of cases, hospitalizations, and a brisk return of deaths."
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