NYC to Mandate Vaccine for All City Workers as Cases Rise [View all]

(Bloomberg) -- New York City will require all city workers to get the Covid-19 vaccine by Sept. 13 or submit to weekly tests as cases linked to the Delta variant rise across New York. The city will also institute an indoor mask mandate for unvaccinated municipal workers.

“The Delta variant has thrown us a curve ball,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a briefing on Monday. “If someone is unvaccinated unfortunately they pose a greater risk.”

The city’s broad vaccine mandate expands a policy announced last week that requires health care workers in public hospitals and clinics to be vaccinated by Aug. 2 or submit to weekly tests. Foster care, senior center or shelter staff will be required to be vaccinated by Aug. 16, with the mandate applying to the whole city workforce by the first day of public school in mid-September.

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About 60% of the city’s more than 42,000 public hospital employees have been vaccinated, according to Mitchell Katz, president and chief executive officer of the system. Only 54% of people are fully vaccinated in the city, which missed its goal of fully vaccinating 5 million New Yorkers by the end of June. Just over 4.5 million New Yorkers are fully vaccinated.

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