New York City public officials must receive at least one dose of the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) vaccine by February 11, or they will lose their jobs. It is estimated that about 3,000 city agency employees are affected, accounting for about 30% of the total number of public servants. 1%.
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered last year that all city employees, including police officers, firefighters and teachers, must receive at least one dose of the vaccine, Agence France-Presse reported.
New Mayor Eric Adams, who took office in January, upheld the decision. He said on the 10th: “We didn’t fire them, they left. The responsibility is clear, we’ve said it: if you want the job, you have to get vaccinated; if you don’t follow the rules, it’s your decision. .”
Like the mask mandate, the vaccine mandate is also a controversial political issue in the United States, with the Republican governor of Texas even ordering it not to be implemented.
Hundreds of workers opposed to New York’s vaccine mandate are expected to march at Manhattan City Hall on the 11th.
About 95 percent of New York City’s public servants have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to city data, and those 3,000 people make up less than 1 percent of the 370,000 public servants. Thousands more have not been vaccinated but have applied for medical or religious exemptions to avoid losing their jobs.
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