New York mandates COVID-19 vaccines for all city workers

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio connected Wednesday announced that each municipal employees indispensable get astatine slightest 1 dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by Oct. 29.

Last month, the metropolis instituted a argumentation that required workers to either get their shots oregon beryllium subjected to play COVID-19 tests. On Wednesday, de Blasio announced that workers nary longer had the enactment to instrumentality play tests.

According to The New York Post, metropolis workers who bash not get their archetypal dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by Nov. 1 volition beryllium placed connected unpaid permission until they tin supply impervious of vaccination.

"There is nary greater privilege than serving the radical of New York City, and that privilege comes with a work to support yourself and your assemblage safe," de Blasio said, according to WABC-TV successful New York. "...as we proceed our betterment for each of us, metropolis workers person been a regular inspiration. Now is the clip for them to amusement their metropolis the way retired of this pandemic erstwhile and for all."

In summation to requiring vaccines for metropolis workers, New York already requires residents to amusement proof of vaccination to entree immoderate nationalist indoor facilities, similar gyms, restaurants and theaters.