City authorities are allowing wholesalers to open their businesses
Retail florists have not received authorization to open.
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As Mother's Day approaches, authorities are allowing Los Angeles flower wholesalers to reopen and operate as essential businesses, ABC 7 reported.
Eric Garcetti, the city's mayor, said Tuesday that he will be allowed to open businesses as essential.
The decision comes before the Mother's Day weekend when places like the Los Angeles Flower Market, which is located in the city center, are used to receiving hundreds of customers.
Flower dealers are now exempt, like agricultural businesses, from operating as an essential business under the "Safer at Home" order.
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Given the measure, the markets will be watched and they will have to respect the rules of social distancing, if they do not abide by the measure they could be closed, Garcetti said.
The mayor is not sure that the retail florists will be able to reopen on Friday like other businesses.
Meanwhile, it is expected to be Friday when the economy in the state of California can reopen, Governor Gavin Newsom reported during his press conference on Monday.
During stage 2 of the reopening, orders will be allowed to be collected from businesses where bookstores, clothing stores and toy stores are included.
"I want to be clear, this is going to last longer than a couple of weeks," Garcetti said during his coronavirus press conference. "There will be no big reopening. It is a series of steps that we must evaluate and it will be successful if we practice the recommendations they give us. ”
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In Los Angeles some of the walking and sports trails could be reopened to the public and even Garcetti's team is discussing the breads to allow more business to join the reopening, however, it will still be some time before all businesses to resume their activities.
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