Sheffield beauty salons, nail bars and tattoo shops set to open again today

Beauty salons, nail bars and tattoo shops in Sheffield are to open for the first time today in four months as part of the latest relaxation of lockdown restrictions in England.
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Spas, massage studios and physical therapy businesses are also able to welcome customers again.

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But businesses will be required to meet coronavirus guidelines, and restrictions on treatments which involve work directly in front of the face will not be available.

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Salons to reopen today: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
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Government guidance states that face waxing, eyelash treatments, make-up application and facials should not be provided yet because of the greater risk of Covid-19 transmission.

Meanwhile, the debate on mandating face coverings in shops continues, with Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove saying they should not be made compulsory.

He said that while the policy on mouth and nose coverings in public places was kept under review, he thought it was best to trust the public's ‘common sense’.

Yet on Friday Prime Minister Boris Johnson hinted that they may become compulsory in shops, saying he wanted to be ‘stricter’ on insisting people wear them.

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In an interview with BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Gove said: “I think that it is basic good manners, courtesy and consideration, to wear a face mask if you are, for example, in a shop.

“I trust people's good sense. Now of course the Government at all times does look at the emerging evidence about what the best way to control the disease is.

“If necessary, and if tough measures are required and as we have seen in Leicester, obviously a very different situation, then tough measures will be taken. But on the whole... it is always best to trust people's common sense.”

He also urged people to return to work rather than stay at home to ensure the ‘economic engines of this country are fired up again’.

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Mr Gove's opposite number Rachel Reeves said the compulsory wearing of face coverings in shops would be a ‘sensible way forward’.

The shadow Cabinet Office minister told Marr: “I think people are increasingly wearing them but I think some greater clarity from Government about that, I think, would be helpful.”

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