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BY ZOE STROZEWSKI ON 7/21/21
New York City will begin requiring employees $\in$ city-run hospitals and health clinics to receive a COVID-19
vaccination or get tested for the virus every week, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday, according
to the Associated Press.
The announcement, which will apply to about 42,000 workers $\in$ the city's public hospital system and
nursing homes, comes as the city sees a surge $\in COVID-19$ infections and the $\Delta$ variant.
The mandate doesn't include teachers, police officers and other city employees, but it seeks to push more
people to get vaccinated as doses administered daily dropped to fewer than 18,000 from a high of more
than $100,000\in A$pril.
About 25 percent of Black adults under age 45 are fully vaccinated; about 45 percent of the workforce $\in$
the public hospital system are Black.
The $\Delta$ variant currently accounts for seven out of 10 sequenced cases $\in$ the city, according to health
officials
"We need our health care workers to be vaccinated and it's getting dangerous with the $\Delta$ variant," de
Blasio said on CNN.

Disponível em: www.newsweek.com. Acesso em: 22/072021.

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