On Friday (April 9), Peterborough Public Health served the operator of a barber shop in Peterborough’s East City with a Section 22 order requiring him to close his premises.
The Who’s Next barber shop is located at 72 Hunter Street East in Peterborough.
Barber shops are among personal care service establishments that are required to close under the provincial state of emergency.
“Personal service settings like hair salons and tattoo parlours are high risk for COVID-19 transmission because of the inability to maintain two metres distance,” states medical officer of health Dr. Rosana Salvaterra in a media release. “In fact, there is currently an active outbreak linked to another local personal service setting that has resulted in eight cases so far.”
Dr. Salvaterra added the health unit served the barber shop operator with a Section 22 order “because he has been wilfully defying the provincial order to close, despite warnings and charges laid under the Reopening Ontario Act.”
Failure to comply with the Section 22 order “will lead to an escalation of measures necessary to ensure that public health measures are being followed” according to the media release, which may include a fine of up to $5,000 for every day or part of each day on which the offence occurs or continues.
