Clearly exasperated by the large number of employees—particularly in uniformed agencies—that have yet to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, Mayor de Blasio Oct. 20 announced that every municipal employee will have to provide their agency with proof of at least a first inoculation by 5 p.m. Oct. 29, or they will be placed on leave without pay.
"My job as your Mayor is to keep this city safe and keep this city healthy, and vaccinations is the way and we have proven it time and time again—it works," he told reporters at his morning briefing. "We have to keep going farther, because COVID is not gone yet. We are not back to normal."
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