Brisk business as hair salons, TCM halls and home bakers resume operations in Singapore


A barber wearing a face mask as a prevention measure against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus attends to a customer at a hair salon, after they reopened as restrictions to contain the outbreak were relaxed, in Singapore on May 12, 2020. -AFP

SINGAPORE - Hairdressing and barber shops saw brisk business on Tuesday (May 12) morning as customers queued to crop their shaggy manes after these premises were forced to shut for nearly three weeks.

A line of more than 10 people was spotted waiting outside the Snip Avenue salon at Bishan Street 13, while some of the other salons in the neighbourhood told The Straits Times that regular customers had called ahead to make appointments as soon as it was announced that hairdresser shops could reopen.

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