Some Winnipeg businesses spent Sunday preparing to reopen this week — with strings attached — as the province begins to slacken restrictions it placed on non-essential services on April 1, shortly after COVID-19 arrived in Winnipeg.
Michael Bumsted, a bookseller at Whodunit Books on Lilac Street, spent the day finishing projects — changing displays and cleaning up — along with a staff member.
The store had planned on reopening later in May, Bumsted said, so Sunday was rushed. “We’ll be measuring out space on the floor, and doing some social distancing, posting posters about those sorts of things that have been provided by the province, we’ll be making hand sanitizer stations,” he said of the public health protocols placed on businesses that