The province has announced next steps to reopen the economy.
Premier Stephen McNeil says effective June 5th, most businesses that were required to close
Premier Stephen McNeil (left) and Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Officer of Health (Right) (Nova Scotia Government photo)
under the public health order can now reopen.
Businesses that can open again include restaurants for dine-in as well as take-out and delivery; bars, wineries, distilleries and taprooms; personal services such as hair salons, barber shops, spas, nail salons and body art establishments. Also open for customers will be fitness facilities such as gyms, yoga studios and climbing facilities.
Lounges are not allowed to reopen
As well, dentistry and other self regulated health professions such as optometry, chiropractic and physiotherapy can see patients again, along with unregulated professions such as massage therapy, podiatry and naturopathy.
The province will share the reopening date for child care once it is approved.
McNeil hints he’ll have more say on Friday about the opening up of the economy and social gatherings.
The province also announced it will invest $230 million for more than 200 shovel ready projects to stimulate the economy including upgrades to roads, bridges, schools and museums, courthouses and hospitals. The work is expected to create up to two thousand jobs. This funding is on top of the $1 billion capital plan announced by the province earlier this year.
Premier Stephen McNeil announced the stimulus spending directed toward shovel-ready projects, including investments in roads, bridges, school repairs and museums, courthouses and hospital renovations.
The projects include new investments in additional paving for 100 series highways and local roads across the province, expansion of the gravel road program, replacement of at least six bridges, including Capt. Gillis bridge, near Port Hood, and Nelson’s bridge, in Margaree, Inverness County.
Other projects include school repairs, including roofs, windows and mechanical upgrades, provincial museum upgrades, and campus upgrades to the NSCC campuses.