City Hall won’t release guidance for how businesses should enforce the new mandate until December 15, following talks with the business community
Photo: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that all private-sector employees in New York City will be required to be vaccinated against COVID by the end of this month, a shock to those employers who would bear the brunt of the policy and were given no details on how it would be enforced.
The mayor revealed his surprise on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, citing the highly transmissible Omicron variant, which has already been detected in New York City. “We’ve got Omicron as a new factor. We’ve got the colder weather, which is going to really create additional challenges with the Delta variant. We’ve got holiday gatherings.
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