New York mayor wants to vaccinate all municipal staff in his city by mid-September

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VACCINATION – This is an important announcement. As of September 13, New York will require that “all the workforce of the city” be vaccinated or be tested weekly, announced Monday, July 26 Bill de Blasio, the mayor of the city, at a press conference.

The mayor said that it would be “much better” to be vaccinated rather than resorting to tests.

“This is our recovery. This is what we need to do for New York City. It is about protecting people (…) to bring back jobs (…) ”, added the mayor to the press.

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BREAKING: New York will require “the entire city workforce” to be vaccinated by mid-September or face weekly testing, NYC Mayor de Blasio announces.

“This is about our recovery. This is about keeping people safe. This is about bringing back jobs. You name it.” pic.twitter.com/GpIRMZ986j

— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 26, 2021

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Who will be the people concerned? As an example Bill de Blasio named “people who work in schools, law enforcement (NYPD), firefighters (FDNY) or people who work“ in offices ”.

The month of September, a “crucial” period

According to him, the month of September will be a “crucial” period in the fight against Covid-19. “September is the time when employees return to the company, it is the time of the start of the school year, it is the return of vacationers”, he pleaded.

A few days earlier, Bill de Blasio had already announced that the thousands of employees of New York public hospitals should soon either be vaccinated against Covid or be tested every week.

“We are monitoring the Delta variant and its impact and it is time to introduce changes,” Mayor Bill de Blasio explained during a press briefing. “This is a first step (…) If we do not see the vaccination figures increasing fast enough, we will consider other options,” he said. What he did then.

Measures already taken in San Francisco

These announcements come against a backdrop of growing controversy over the measures to be taken to increase the vaccination rate against the delta variant, which now represents 83% of American contaminations, according to the latest estimates.

Many health officials are pushing to make vaccination compulsory, at least for certain categories of the population. But several states led by Republicans have instead adopted laws prohibiting coercive measures, especially in schools.

End of June, San Francisco City Hall had already made vaccination compulsory for all municipal employees. But she had conditioned this measure to full approval of the vaccines by the American drug authority, the FDA, not expected for several weeks.

Faced with the progression of the Delta variant, the city finally decided to require vaccination from September 15 for its most exposed employees.

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