Groups representing workers of gyms and party rooms told an RTHK radio program today, that the government's move does not make sense, and questioned the criteria used to determine which businesses could reopen. The president of the Hong Kong Party Room Association, Lam Hong-yin, said it is not fair to allow beauty salons, but not party rooms, to resume operations. Lam said the authorities failed to reach out to the sector to understand the difficulties they're facing or discuss measures to help the sector resume business as soon as possible. Lam said he felt beauty parlors pose a greater health risk than party rooms, because party rooms require guests to make reservations and it will be easier to carry out contact tracing if someone does get infected. He said beauty parlors were more high risk because beauticians are in close contact with customers.

Source: The Standard August 26, 2020 06:33 UTC