California will require healthcare workers and workers in 'high-risk congregate settings' to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster by Feb. 1, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday as part of the state's response to the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
A nurse prepares a Pfizer BioNTech coronavirus disease vaccination as part of a vaccine drive by the Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Mission Indians in Arleta, Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 23, 2021. REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonDec 22 - California will require healthcare workers and workers in "high-risk congregate settings" to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster by Feb. 1, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday as part of the state's response to the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
Although California has one of the lowest COVID-19 infection rates in the country, Newsom cited recent developments showing that new cases nearly doubled in the past week as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus sweeps the country. The governor also announced that all public school students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, will receive a rapid COVID-19 test as they head back to school from winter break, adding that the state was ordering 6 million test kits.
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