Barber shops and salons can reopen Monday — except in South Florida, DeSantis says

Barber shops and salons can reopen in most of Florida on Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday in a significant alteration to his reopening plans.

Shops in any county operating the governor’s Phase 1 program will be allowed to reopen. By Monday, that will be all counties but Broward and Miami-Dade.

DeSantis made the announcement in a tweet on Friday featuring the owner of an Orlando barber shop DeSantis visited Saturday.

Reopening barber shops and salons was not originally in the first phase of DeSantis’ three-step plan to reopen the state. Phase 1, which allowed restaurants and shops to open at 25 percent indoor capacity, started last week.

Barber shops will have to obey “enhanced safety protocols,” DeSantis’ tweet states. It doesn’t clarify what those protocols are, however.