FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2021, record photo, signs advising vaccination and look disguise requirements and nary indoor eating are displayed connected the doorway of an In-N-Out edifice successful San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. The restaurant's indoor eating was unopen down this period by wellness authorities for not demanding impervious of vaccination. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2021, record photo, signs advising vaccination and look disguise requirements and nary indoor eating are displayed connected the doorway of an In-N-Out edifice successful San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. The restaurant's indoor eating was unopen down this period by wellness authorities for not demanding impervious of vaccination. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

PLEASANT HILL, Calif. – 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.

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.

“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.

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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.

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