Mask Up Rochester

Rochester businesses and nonprofits now have 148,000 masks.

Coronavirus rochester businesses and nonprofits now have 148?

"* thousand masks.

They were distributed in rochester this morning.

Kimt news 3's annalise johnson joins us live.

Annalise ?

"* where did these masks come from?

Live amy ?

"* i'm here at 125 live in rochester ?

"* where people droe through this area to receive masks until about 2 this afternoon.

The state gave the rochester area chamber of commerce palettes of disposable masks.

On a first?

"*come ?

"* first serve ?

"* people drove up for the chamber to pass them free packages of masks through their car windows.

The purpose is to makes sure employees and customers of businesses and nonprofits have access to masks and help ease the financial burden of buying masks.

Each business was able to request up to 250 masks.

The drive through was set to start at 9 this morning ?

"* but so many cars were lined up before 9 ?

"* the chamber began the event early to prevent vehicles from backing up into people have to realize that protecting employees, protecting customers, costs money.

It costs money to buy the hand sanitizer, it costs money to limit the number of people in your store, and it costs money to buy masks.

The chamber also gave masks to the cities of byron and stewartville.

Live in rochester?

"* annalise johnson thank you annalise.

Even area businesses who are not members of the rochester area chamber of commerce were able to get some