SAVANNAH, Ga. – Some businesses took the first steps toward reopening in Georgia on Friday as the Republican governor eased a month-long shutdown amid experts’ warnings of a potential new surge in coronavirus infections and a potent objection from President Donald Trump.
In Atlanta, a WSB-TV reporter tweeted a photo of a man getting a haircut - he was among the first customers at a barber shop that was reopening.
A bowling alley in Rome posted on Facebook that it was getting back in business with social distancing rules, including a limit of six people to a lane and plenty of hand sanitizer.
With deaths and infections still rising in Georgia, many business owners planned to remain closed in spite of Gov. Brian Kemp's assurance that hospital