Lockdown Gives Millions of EU Cosmetologists the Big Chop: Map

(Bloomberg) -- Around 1.7 million people work as hairdressers and beauticians in the European Union, according to Eurostat. They are among the hardest-hit from a financial point of view and the most exposed from a health-care perspective. During the spring peak of the virus outbreak, these professionals had to discontinue their activities, and now they’re reopening, they work in very close proximity to their clients.

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