Conta County Closes In-N-Out Restaurant For Refusing To Enforce COVID-19 Rules

PLEASANT HILL, Calif. (CBS13/AP) — Another California region closed down an In-N-Out edifice connected Tuesday due to the fact that the fashionable burger concatenation refuses to enforce COVID-19 vaccination rules.

Contra Costa County wellness officials indefinitely unopen the Pleasant Hill edifice aft it ignored repeated warnings to verify that customers who wanted to dine indoors had vaccination cards oregon impervious they had tested antagonistic for the microorganism successful the past 72 hours.

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The region has issued respective warnings and fines for section In-N-Out restaurants, including 2 successful Pinole and San Ramon.

Public wellness authorities spot vaccination enforcement requirements arsenic captious tools successful slowing COVID-19 astatine a clip erstwhile 1,500 oregon much Americans are dying each time from the virus.

However, In-N-Out, based successful Irvine, Calif., has consistently refused to heed the requirements.

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“We garbage to go the vaccination constabulary for immoderate government. It is unreasonable, invasive, and unsafe to unit our edifice associates to segregate customers into those who whitethorn beryllium served and those who whitethorn not,” In-N-Out said successful a statement.

On Oct. 14, the lone In-N-Out successful San Francisco was closed for respective days aft repeatedly refusing to travel that city’s nationalist wellness mandate, authorities said.

The edifice connected Fisherman’s Wharf reopened past week but is expected to lone connection takeout and outdoor dining. However, the city’s Department of Public Health is investigating a ailment that it continues to licence indoor dining, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday.

As of Tuesday, the authorities reported that it’s averaging 4,481 caller cases of COVID-19 per day. Over 71,000 radical person died of the illness since the pandemic began.

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