Some businesses ease back into normalcy

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By: Antho­ny Zepperi 
July 14, 2020
The Hart­ford Guardian

HARTFORD – At least one local busi­ness has reopened to a tepid response from the pub­lic after the restau­rant has been closed for a few months to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Lynne Rus­sell, one of the man­ag­er of Sorella’s Ital­ian Restau­rant on Main Street in Hart­ford, said that busi­ness has been ran­dom since they reopened.

“They have been peo­ple pass­ing through and stop­ping for a bite to eat,”
Rus­sell said.

Accord­ing to Rus­sell, there are guide­lines implant­ed to les­son the spread
COVID-19.

“We are fol­low­ing all guide­lines  put forth by the state which include
con­stant wash­ing of tables, and masks,” Rus­sell said.

The restau­rant took “online class­es In order to help with the new protocols
put in place,” Rus­sell said.

These busi­ness­es, which have been opened to the pub­lic since June 22 with lim­i­ta­tions, include restau­rants, bar­ber shops, libraries and sports facil­i­ties as part of the state’s phase two reopen­ing plan.

Saman­tha Savran, asso­ci­a­tion direc­tor of mar­ket­ing at the YMCA of Greater Hart­ford, said that the facil­i­ty has imple­ment­ed guide­lines as required by the governor.

“We now have tem­per­a­ture checks as well as con­tin­u­ous clean­ing. social dis­tanc­ing mea­sures and mask require­ments,” Savran said.

Savran said that even dur­ing the coro­n­avirus, kids have been enjoy­ing their time at the “Y.”

“At our day camp we run at the facil­i­ty, chil­dren have been hav­ing a blast,” Savran said. “They like play­ing with their peers in a dif­fer­ent and more con­trolled environment.”

Savran said that the YMCA has been the go-to place to go for peo­ple deal­ing with stress dur­ing these press­ing times.

“The YMCA’s pur­pose is to build stronger rela­tion­ships with mem­bers,” Savran said. “Our well­ness cen­ter has always had strong bonds with its members.”

As of July 14, 2020, there have been 47,287 pos­i­tive cas­es of the virus with 4,348 deaths in Con­necti­cut, accord­ing to the Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Prevention.