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Long Beach Restaurants, Gyms and Movie Theaters Finally Reopen
Long Beach Mar 15, 2021
Restaurants, gyms and movie theaters were allowed to offer indoor service at a limited capacity Monday for the first time in months. (Shutterstock)
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LONG BEACH, CA — Long Beach restaurants, gyms and movie theaters are officially allowed to welcome customers indoors again for the first time this year as Los Angeles County enters the state’s red tier in the “Blueprint for a Safer Economy.”
The new phase, which allows a myriad of businesses to reopen at limited capacity became official at 12:01 a.m. Monday in Long Beach. On Friday, the state confirmed it had met the threshhold of administering 2 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in low-income communities. And businesses across Long Beach spent the weekend preparing for the reopenings with safety mitigation measures.
For many, Long Beach business owners it’s a bittersweet day. They’ve spent the last year trying to hang on through intermittent closures and restrictions and employee layoffs.
“We’re just tired; it’s been a really long year,” said Sandy Bond, manager of Los Amigos Strength and Fitness Center in Signal Hill told the Long […]