'Left in the dark': the Auckland businesses waiting to reopen

'Left in the dark': the Auckland businesses waiting to reopen
Vaccine certificates will become the norm for many retail shoppers. (Image: Getty)
Henry Burrell
For Jay Clark, seeing the queues outside Sylvia Park mall was frustrating.As the co-owner of Room 104 Grooming Lounge hairdressers, he can't have people sitting in his chairs; he says the crowds of people at malls seen as Auckland retail reopened are far more dangerous than him looking after his clients.He's one of many in Auckland retail and hospitality gearing up to use the new vaccine certificate system once the city moves into the red setting of the government’s new covid-19 framework.He says the rules around certificates are...

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