All New York City workers, including police, fire and education employees, will be required to be vaccinated by mid-September or else submit to a weekly test, the city’s mayor announced.
The deadline for the mandate will be September 13, when the autumn school term begins, and healthcare will next week become the first sector that will be subject to the requirement, Bill de Blasio told a press conference on Monday.
The mayor also urged private entities to consider setting similar vaccine mandates for their workplaces.
De Blasio last week said public healthcare workers would be required to be vaccinated or else be tested for Covid-19 weekly, but did not announce anything for other employees of the city.
That left New York City shy of efforts in San Francisco, which earlier this month became one of the first major cities in the US to mandate vaccinations for its public employees.
New York City’s new mandate will apply to employees in operations such as the police department, fire department and schools, and workers in offices as well as in the field.
Those who do not get vaccinated…
