Dr. Jazz Atwal, Manitoba's acting deputy chief public health officer, confirmed Tuesday cosmetics are on the list of products deemed essential under provincial public health orders. "When we initially didn't have cosmetics added to the list, some facilities or some retailers were providing that as a essential item simply because a lot of cosmetics also have some medical ingredients in it," Atwal said during a news conference. "These are completely arbitrary decisions, and they're fast decisions — they're the worst kind of decisions," she said. "They're decisions made in haste, because proper planning wasn't done, and they're the decisions that caused the most conflict and tension and animosity." Public health orders are open to review, a provincial government spokesperson said in a statement.

Source: CBC News December 23, 2020 21:22 UTC