Business owners in Durham Region were able to throw open their doors Tuesday as it was the first official business day of the provincial reopening plan amid the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s fantastic,” says Sandra Welch, who owns an eyelash artist supply store, Lashes by Design, in Whitby. “A couple of my customers have tried to talk to me as we do curbside, but it’s just a different experience in the store.” Welch is one of thousands of business owners now able to open their retail shops after being shut down by COVID-19 precautions.
Now they can run their storefronts with strict guidelines in place. “I have my hand sanitizer and we have to wipe down the doorknobs,” says Welch, who opened her doors Tuesday morning. “There are six-feet