NEW YORK CITY, July 30, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – New York City’s Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that all municipal employees of New York City will be required to have received one of the experimental COVID-19 vaccines, or be forced to take a mandatory test for the virus every week, starting September 13.
The announcement followed an earlier edict last week that forces public healthcare employees into a vaccine-or-test program effective August 2. “We’re in a new era of COVID where there’ve been millions of people vaccinated and hospitalizations rates have gone down, but cases are rising and we need to make sure our health care facilities are as safe as possible,” a spokesman for the administration said at the time.
The extension of this program to all city employees means roughly 340,000 people, including teachers and police officers, will also be required to take the shot or face weekly COVID testing. “It means people who work in offices and people who work on the front line. Everyone,” de Blasio explained, adding that city workers will be required, from August 2, to wear face masks indoors at all times if they have not taken the jab.
The mayor also
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors