400 essential workers who get vaccinated can receive $25 gift cards Friday at Clark Park
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DETROIT(WXYZ) â Detroit-area workers who work within the restaurant, hospitality and retail industries will be gifted $25 Visa gift cards Friday at Clark Park after receiving a COVID vaccination.
The program, put on by Protect Michigan Commission, the Small Business Association of Michigan and the Michigan Restaurant & Lodging Association, will be held from 2 to 7 p.m., Friday, May 14 at Clark Park, 1130 Clark St. in Southwest Detroit.
âThe best way to ensure Michiganâs hospitality, retail and restaurant industries can get back to normal is by ensuring the workers in those industries get their COVID-19 vaccinations so they can get back to normal,â said Protect Michigan Commission Director Kerry Ebersole Singh.
Gift cards offered to Detroit-area hospitality, retail workers getting vaccinated at Clark Park on May 14
First 400 workers vaccinated will receive $25 Visa gift card
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Licensed practical nurse Adrian McCain prepares a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination at a Montgomery County Office of Public Health vaccination clinic at the King of Prussia Mall, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in King of Prussia, Pa., (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
DETROIT – The first 400 Detroit-area hospitality and retail workers getting vaccinated at Clark Park on Friday can receive a $25 Visa gift card as part of a new statewide “shots in arms” incentive campaign.
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Up to 400 Detroit-area restaurant, hospitality and retail workers can get a free $25 Visa gift card when they get a COVID-19 vaccine Friday in Detroit in an event that kicks off a new statewide vaccination campaign.
The event is the first in a series of vaccination clinics being hosted in communities throughout the state with high foot traffic and a concentration of restaurants, bars and hotels, according to a release Thursday from the Protect Michigan Commission.
The clinics will focus on free vaccines to restaurant, hospitality and retail workers and their families in May and June at locations, dates and times to be determined in Lansing/East Lansing, Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor, Royal Oak/Birmingham/Ferndale, Marquette, Traverse City, Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo.
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When Michigan reopened indoor dining at restaurants for the first time last spring, some businesses and customers were so eager to reunite, they celebrated at midnight – as if it were a Harry Potter movie release.
The latest victory for the business industry is the reopening of offices for all workers, which can start Monday, May 24.
But don’t expect May 24 to bring swift changes and traffic jams.
Michigan hits first vaccine goal: What that means, restriction changes and what’s next
55% of Michiganders have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine
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Michigan has
reached the first of four vaccine milestones that will trigger the easing of COVID-19 restrictions across the state. Here’s what you should know about the situation.
Reopening plan
will ease COVID-19 restrictions based on the percentage of Michiganders who have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
In short, certain restrictions will be softened or removed after the state reaches 55%, 60%, 65% and 70% of people with at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine.