San Mateo County Could Open For In-Store Retail This Week: Report

SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA — San Mateo County retail stores could soon open their doors to in-store customers.

That’s according to San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa, who said retail shops could allow customers through their doors as soon as this week for the first time since shelter-in-place orders went into effect on March 17, KRON 4 reports.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday announced shops could allow customers in their stores provided they meet social distancing guidelines.

“San Mateo County has led on these issues and this is the first return to what normalcy may look like and it’s uplifting news,” Canepa told KRON 4.

“Hope it’s this week, I really really do, I hope it’s this week but we’ll have to wait until the health officer comes and decides.”

Canepa said relaxing shelter-in-place orders would provide much-needed help to small business owners and their employees who’ve suffered through the shutdown.

“We always think of small businesses as just a business owner,” Canepa said.

“Well they have employees. They have employees who work for them and those folks are really suffering. I hear it every day.”


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