Contra Costa County Vaccine Mandate for Businesses Takes Effect

Patrons of restaurants, gyms and different indoor businesses successful Contra Costa County volition request to amusement impervious of COVID-19 vaccination oregon a caller antagonistic trial starting Wednesday.

The countywide wellness bid is aimed astatine countering a spike successful COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations this summertime owed to the highly infectious delta variant and unvaccinated residents.

County wellness officials estimation unvaccinated residents relationship for 95.9% of the county's deaths truthful far.

"This bid is indispensable present to prevention lives, support our overburdened healthcare system, and dilatory the pandemic capable to support our schools open," said Dr. Chris Farnitano, Contra Costa County Health Officer said successful a quality release.

The caller bid applies to businesses wherever radical region masks to devour oregon portion indoors, and to gyms and different indoor fittingness facilities wherever patrons respire much heavy owed to exercise.

The bid besides requires workers successful indoor areas of the businesses to amusement impervious of afloat vaccination against COVID-19 by Nov. 1 oregon trial play for COVID-19.

To amusement impervious of vaccination, patrons request to amusement a photograph ID and their vaccination grounds cards from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), oregon copies oregon pictures of their cards. Documentation from healthcare providers volition besides beryllium accepted, arsenic volition integer COVID-19 vaccine records issued by the State of California.

A nexus to a integer vaccination, which tin beryllium downloaded onto a smartphone, tin beryllium recovered myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov.

More accusation astir the wellness bid is disposable astatine cchealth.org/coronavirus.