Apple's retail reopening plan: Temperature checks, mandatory masks
Apple will require customers to submit to temperature checks and wear masks before entering an Apple store.Twenty-five Apple retail stores will reopen in the U.S. this week.
Apple also announced on Sunday several stores in the U.S. that will be reopening this week. Some of the stores will allow customers in, while others will only offer curbside pick-up service. Apple stores will be reopening this week in a handful of states including Florida, California , Washington , Hawaii, Oklahoma and Colorado.
It's also meant stepping up in new ways to support the public health response, including Apple's efforts to source more than 30 million masks and 10 million custom‑built face shields for doctors and nurses, our work to design software to help users check symptoms and to help health workers notify those who may have been exposed, and our partnership with manufacturers in the United States to deploy more than a million testing kits per week.
Our commitment is to only move forward with a reopening once we're confident we can safely return to serving customers from our stores. We look at every available piece of data — including local cases, near and long‑term trends, and guidance from national and local health officials. These are not decisions we rush into — and a store opening in no way means that we won't take the preventative step of closing it again should local conditions warrant.
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