Companies including Microsoft and Tyson Foods require all workers be inoculated and more states reimpose mask-wearing as US enters a new phase of battling Delta variant
03 August 2021 - 22:15A Bronx resident receives a Pfizer shot, in New York, the US. Picture: REUTERS/DAVID DEE DELGADO
The federal government and several states have already required public employees to get vaccinated as have some hospitals and universities. Meatpacker Tyson Foods on Tuesday became one of the largest private employers to require all workers be inoculated.said on Tuesday all employees must be vaccinated against in order to enter its US offices, starting in September.
About 60% of all New Yorkers have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, according to city data. But certain areas, largely poor communities and communities of colour, have lower vaccination rates. To fight the spread in California, political leaders in eight San Francisco Bay Area counties reinstated mandatory indoor mask orders in public places as of midnight on Tuesday morning. Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, late in July mandated all state employees to get vaccinated starting on August 2 or undergo Covid-19 testing at least once a week.
In Arkansas, another state were hospital admissions for Covid-19 have spiked, Republican governor Asa Hutchinson said he will ask state legislators on Wednesday to provide an exception to a law that prohibits state and local government, including school boards, from mandating people to wear masks.
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