Minnesota's Efforts With Compliance Checks

Minnesota health officials are ramping up the state's efforts when it comes to compliance checks for bars and restaurants.

Officials are ramping up the state's efforts when it comes to compliance checks for bars and restaurants.

Kimt news three's calyn thompson joins us live now to break down the findings.xxx katie, going out to eat at restaurants like pappy's might be one of the things you missed most during the pandemic.

Over the past two weekends, state officials have been working together to make sure bars and restaurants are safe for both those who visit and work there.xxx minnesota department of health partnered with the department of public safety, labor industry, and agriculture to perform compliance checks on more than 150 bars and restaurants in several communities.

They found a majority were working to comply with guidance.

Of the 167 establishments visited: 88 businesses were following requirements, while 79 were not.

Issues ranged from people not wearing masks, not social distancing, or simply a lack of preparedness plans and worker training.

Sot (phoner graphic): we know that most establishments are taking these safety precautions seriously, and we applaud those many bars and restaraunts for their efforts to protect workers and the public.

We also know that a handful of bad actors can create a ripple effect and impact the entire industry mdh has investigated 68 case clusters of patrons visiting 66 different bars and restaurants... 38 of these met the definition of an outbreak with 1,210 people infected with covid.

Health officials have identified another 58 suspected outbreaks involving employees at bars and restaurants.

This shows that what we do has an impact on case count.

Sot (phoner graphic): now these numbers represent a fraction of the thousand of bars and restaurants in the state, but we all have to do our part./// olmsted county is not one of the counties health officials visited over the past two weekends.

Live in rochester, calyn thompson, kimt news 3./// thanks, calyn.

Currently, minnesota has more than 81?

"* thousand positive covid?

"* 19 cases to see the minnesota department of health's full compliance check list head to kimt dot com.///