Restrictions on alcohol sales at food establishments remain. | Adobe Stock
Restrictions on alcohol sales at food establishments remain. | Adobe Stock
Mecklenburg County is complying with the state's Safer at Home order, which resulted in tighter restrictions on alcohol sales on Sept. 4 to help slow the spread of COVID-19, county officials said.
For businesses, this means that at 11 p.m., eateries must stop alcoholic drink sales, in-dining limits remain and venues that host gatherings still have to follow capacity rules, Mecklenburg County officials said in a Sept. 2 press release. However, businesses such as bars, nightclubs movie theaters — among others — still must remain closed.
"While the number of new cases is improving, we continue to see a large number of COVID-19 cases among young adults," Gibbie Harris, Mecklenburg County Public Health Director, said in the county release.
Mecklenburg County, along with the City of Charlotte and Cornelius, Davidson, Huntsville, Mathews, Mint Hill, and Pineville, will follow the state's restrictions until Oct. 2 at 5 p.m.
"The continued restrictions on alcohol sales are an effective way to limit large numbers of mostly younger residents gathering in various establishments with no face coverings or social distancing which is not conducive to slowing the spread of this virus," Harris said in the release.
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