New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday that the city will offer $ 100, starting Friday, to every person getting vaccinated for the first time.
As of Friday, New York will offer $ 100 to each person who is vaccinated in a center of the city, announced Wednesday Bill de Blasio, the mayor of the city.
“We will give 100 dollars to every New Yorker who goes to be vaccinated at a vaccination center in the city. We will say thank you, we are very happy that you got vaccinated, for yourself, for your family and for your entourage. Here is 100 dollars, thank you for this good deed and for encouraging people, “he said at a press conference.
Vaccination obligation for civil servants
From September 13, all employees in New York will have to be compulsorily vaccinated or take a weekly test, Bill de Blasio also announced Monday at a press conference.
This measure concerns “all the employees of New York”, he insisted, namely “all the people who work in our schools, in the police, all the agents of the city … All those who are in offices and on the front line “.
On August 2, all caregivers will need to be vaccinated or will be required to take a weekly test. On August 16, it will be the turn of the 45,000 municipal council employees, living in collective or residential housing, to be affected by the measure. On September 13, the first day of the start of the school year, it will apply to all city officials
In New York City, 59% of people of all ages have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, but the pace of vaccination is slowing. Nationally, only 57% of all Americans have received at least one dose, and 49% are fully immunized.
Vaccines remain extremely effective in preventing hospitalization and preventing death, and infections among immunized people remain rare. The Delta variant accounts for more than 89% of contaminations in the United States.
On Monday, 57 groups representing millions of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals called for compulsory vaccination for health workers.
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