:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/7YOIZXWTIFALJI7XJYFSBLD444.jpg "How the COVID-19 Vaccination Centers That Accept Tourists Work in New York")
I’ve been in the United States for weeks COVID-19 vaccines abound. There are several states and cities that have already authorized the different inoculation centers to administer doses without prior appointments to those who come to receive one. One of them is new york city, which is also using this asset to attract tourists who wish to be immunized.
City authorities have set up different centers in local attractions – like Times Square, the Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park – to emphasize their willingness to vaccinate tourists. But it has also done it throughout the city in high attendance points. Infobae toured two of them -one located on the street and another in a subway station- to see how they work.
Monica, a member of the health staff of the first location, indicated that the vaccine of a dose of Johnson & Johnson, and that although the initial intention of the project was to allocate the majority of the inoculants to the indigent, a higher percentage is currently destined to tourists, who are less reluctant to receive them.
“We receive many Mexicans. Also people from Honduras, Ecuador and Colombia, as well as some Argentines and Chileans”, He detailed.
Underground, meanwhile, the authorities have implemented, like others throughout the country, strategies to encourage the population to inoculate. While the initiative doesn’t have the magnitude of the Ohio governor’s five-million-dollar prize drawing, a pass that grants free rides for a week is appealing to many.
State governments and businesses across the country have unleashed their creativity in recent weeks to encourage citizens to get vaccinated, offering a myriad of products and services to those who present their immunization credentials, such as beers, marijuana cigarettes or sports tickets.
New York has set July 1 as the deadline for the full reopening of the city and the green light has already been given to full business capacity later this month, although the Broadway curtain rise, one of the main tourist attractions, will arrive a little later, on September 14.
Latin American tourists make up a significant percentage of those who travel to the “Big Apple” to receive the vaccine. Germán Sánchez arrived on Thursday morning from Colombia, already vaccinated, to accompany his daughter and son-in-law to get the single dose of Johnson & Johnson at Grand Central Station, a fleeting family visit that will last just five days and that, he assured the agency EfeIt is not an isolated case: “Tourism in quantities, flights full, very crowded.”
The only requirement is an ID with photo, name and date of birth, explain Police agents who supervise this pilot vaccination initiative that is receiving about 300 people a day, many of them with suitcases and passports in hand, and which has the prospect of expanding.
According to Latin American media, travel agencies throughout the region already manage visits for tourists to get vaccinated in the United States and there is a clear flow of Mexicans to southern destinations such as Texas, Arizona and Louisiana, which began immunization without restrictions nor the registry of the migratory status of the patients.
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