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From December 27, in New York, all employees in the private sector will have to be able to provide proof that they are vaccinated against Covid-19 to go to the office.
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It is an unprecedented decision in the United States: the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, imposes vaccination for all employees working in the Big Apple, which represents 184,000 companies.
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“A preventive attack against the virus”
Beginning of the obligation: December 27, 2021. “We have decided to launch a preventive attack against the virus and to do something daring to stop the progression of the Covid and the dangers it poses to all of us”, explained the democratic councilor to the American television channel MSNBC.
In this way, Bill de Blasio goes further than US President Joe Biden, who plans to impose vaccination on all employees of companies with more than 100 people as of January 4, 2022, subject to a court ruling. favorable.
In the United States, some companies have already made vaccination a condition sine qua non to come to the office, which is fully in line with US law. But the decision had never been made at the scale of a city.
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89% of New Yorkers vaccinated
In New York, the obligation already applies to municipal employees since 1is November. Today, 94% of these workers have been vaccinated.
In total, 89% of adult New Yorkers have, to date, received at least one dose of the vaccine, while the circulation of the variant of the Omicron virus has been confirmed in about fifteen American states, including that of New York.
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