Chicago to require proof of vaccination at restaurant, bars

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the nation’s third-largest metropolis volition necessitate impervious of coronavirus vaccination astatine restaurants, bars, gyms and different indoor venues.

Lightfoot said Tuesday that the request volition instrumentality effect Jan. 3. It comes arsenic the rapidly spreading omicron variant has led to a spike successful COVID-19 infections.

Lightfoot says she hasn’t been arsenic acrophobic astir COVID-19 arsenic she is present since the aboriginal days of the pandemic successful 2020.

On Monday, Illinois reported astir 12,330 caller COVID-19 cases, which is the highest regular full successful much than a year. Chicago is seeing an mean of 1,700 cases per day, up from astir 300 per time conscionable weeks ago. Much of that summation has been driven by the omicron variant, prompting fears of a wintertime surge.

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