Here are Alabama’s non-essential businesses that are closing until April 17
Friday morning the state of Alabama ordered all “nonessential” businesses to close until April 17 in order to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), becoming the latest in a growing number of states to order similar closures. Alabama has decided the following businesses are non-essential and will be closed beginning Saturday, March 28 at 5 p.m.: Entertainment venues • Night clubs• Bowling alleys• Arcades• Concert venues• Theaters, auditoriums and performing art centers• Tourist attractions (including museums and planetariums)• Racetracks• Indoor children’s play areas• Adult entertainment venues• Casinos• Bingo halls• Venues operated by social clubs Athletic facilities and activities • Fitness centers and commercial gyms• Spas and public or commercial swimming pools• Yoga, barre and spin facilities• Spectator sports• Sports that involved interaction with another person closer than 6 feet• Activities that require use of shared sporting apparatus and equipment• Activities on commercial or public playground equipment Non-essential “close-contact” service establishments • Close-contact service providers as follows:• Barbershops• Hair salons• Waxing salons• Threading salons• Nail salons and spas• Body-art facilities and tattoo services• Tanning salons• Massage-therapy establishment and massage services Non-essential retail stores • Furniture and home-furnishing stores• Clothing, shoe and clothing-accessory stores• Jewelry, luggage and leather goods store• Department stores• Sporting goods stores• Book, craft and music stores If the business is not listed, it’s not included in the new order. Violations of Ivey’s new order can result in fines of up to $500.
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Friday morning the state of Alabama ordered all “nonessential” businesses to close until April 17 in order to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), becoming the latest in a growing number of states to order similar closures. Gov. Kay Ivey made the announcement during a news conference after the Alabama Department of Public Health confirmed more than 580 cases of COVID-19 and three deaths statewide. There, she explained that all non-work related gatherings of 10 people or more, or non-work related gatherings of any size that cannot maintain a consistent six-foot distance between persons, are prohibited in the Yellowhammer State. “This decision has not been made lightly, but has been made with a tremendous amount of concern and discussion,” said Ivey. “This is incredibly disappointing news to deliver, but this is a matter of life and death.” Ivey’s decision comes in the wake of her Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth criticizing the state’s response to the virus. On Wednesday, Ainsworth sent a memo to Alabama’s COVID-19 Response Team in which he explained he does not believe the task force has taken a “realistic review” of what lies ahead and “doubts” the state’s preparations. The closures are scheduled to take effect on Saturday, March 28 at 5 p.m.
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