The provincial government has released its plan for continuing to reopen the province. A number of businesses will be allowed to reopen if the current proposed plan moves forward for June 1.

Among the businesses now on the list are gyms, pools, and nail salons. Originally they had been left off the list. The government has listed a number of strict guidelines the businesses must follow in order to open.

Premier Brian Pallister also stresses that the current plan for Phase 2 is still a draft. The government is seeking feedback, and may make changes should they feel it's warranted.

ools, spas, fitness clubs, gyms and community/service centres to reopen with some limitations;
• Allowing religious or other organizations to hold outdoor services without limitation on numbers if people stay in their vehicles
• Reopening manicurists and pedicurists, tattoo parlours, estheticians, cosmetologists, electrologists and tanning parlours at 50 per cent capacity
• Allowing restaurants to reopen indoor spaces at 50 per cent capacity and continue to offer patio services at that capacity level
• Allowing bars, beverage rooms, micro-brewers and similar businesses that serve food and drinks to operate patio service at 50 per cent of site capacity and to reopen indoor spaces at 50 per cent capacity
• Allowing the resumption of film productions while ensuring physical distancing

Changes with more precise beginnings were announced by Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin Wednesday. They include increasing gathering sizes to 25 people indoors and 50 people outdoors, and allowing residents of personal care homes and long-term care facilities to have visits outdoors. These reduced measures will come into effect on Friday.

Meanwhile, Pallister stresses the importance of continued precaution as his government continues to remove and alter their precautionary COVID-19 restrictions.

“There is no room for complacency,” he says. “We do not want a COVID comeback.”