Michigan bars and restaurants will have to start tracking customers’ names and phone numbers starting Monday to make contact tracing easier as part of the state’s effort to mitigate the spread of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
The new rule, which goes into effect on Nov. 2, was put in place last week by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). Michigan hit a record of new daily infections last week, with the agency announcing that on Oct. 31, there were 3,792 new cases. As of Oct. 29, Michigan’s test positivity rate increased to 5.5 percent from around 2 percent, and the state currently has around 172 infections per million people.
