Low-threshold entry tests would again enable more spontaneous haircutting, without great effort for coordinating appointments.
A quarter of Austrians have visited a hairdresser in the first two weeks since the opening after the hard lockdown – men were more in a hurry to cut their hair than women. This was the result of a market survey on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce. The majority – 58 percent – consider the mandatory submission of a negative corona test result to be useful. The hairdressing industry now also wants free quick tests on site.
It's about the incentive: With low-threshold entry tests, spontaneous hairdressing appointments would be possible again, says the hairdressing guild. The time-consuming juggling with appointments would be superfluous. It would also help those salons that are losing a lot of their sales due to the lack of walk-in customers.
Too much effort
Because 43 percent of the thousand respondents said it was too much effort for them to do a corona test especially because of a visit to the hairdresser. According to the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, a clear two-thirds majority of 68 percent (fully / rather) were in favor of free quick tests directly at the hairdresser's.
For the federal master of hairdressers in the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, Wolfgang Eder, the survey shows the need to carry out a free quick test directly at the hairdresser's – according to the motto test, cut, blow-dry. “We know that the vast majority of the population is behind us.” Of course, reliability must also be guaranteed with quick tests on site, which could be “nose bur tests” under supervision or self-tests with an app solution.
