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FILE PHOTO: Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough delivers remarks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 4, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
Updated July 26, 2021 at 5:24 PM ET
Across the country, officials are rolling out new requirements for mandatory vaccines for public employees and the possibility of penalties if they fail to comply as cases of the delta variant of the coronavirus rise sharply and vaccination rates stall.
The announcements came in quick succession on Monday in the country s most populous city and state. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced all city workers would have to either get vaccinated or tested weekly for the virus. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a similar policy for state employees and health care workers.
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Updated July 26, 2021 at 5:24 PM ET
Across the country, officials are rolling out new requirements for mandatory vaccines for public employees and the possibility of penalties if they fail to comply as cases of the delta variant of the coronavirus rise sharply and vaccination rates stall.
The announcements came in quick succession on Monday in the country s most populous city and state. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced all city workers would have to either get vaccinated or tested weekly for the virus. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a similar policy for state employees and health care workers.
2021-07-26 22:36:19 GMT2021-07-27 06:36:19(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
WASHINGTON, July 26 (Xinhua) The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced Monday that it will require the agency s frontline healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, making it the first federal agency to mandate compulsory inoculation.
Announced by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough, the order will make full vaccination mandatory for VA healthcare personnel - including physicians, dentists, podiatrists, optometrists, registered nurses, physician assistants and some experts - who work in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities, visit VHA facilities or provide direct care to those VA serves, according to a press release issued by the agency.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will require many of its front-line health care workers to be vaccinated against Covid-19, the agency announced Monday, becoming the first area of the federal government to require shots among its workers.
The announcement amounts to a significant endorsement from the Biden administration of vaccine requirements, which it had until now been reluctant to support. While limited to one agency s health care workers, the decision sets what could be a path toward requiring vaccines among other federal employees. Veterans Affairs is going to, in fact, require that all doctors working in facilities are going to have to be vaccinated, President Joe Biden said in the Oval Office, where he was meeting with Iraq s prime minister.
2021-07-26 22:36:19 GMT2021-07-27 06:36:19(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
WASHINGTON, July 26 (Xinhua) The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced Monday that it will require the agency s frontline healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, making it the first federal agency to mandate compulsory inoculation.
Announced by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough, the order will make full vaccination mandatory for VA healthcare personnel - including physicians, dentists, podiatrists, optometrists, registered nurses, physician assistants and some experts - who work in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities, visit VHA facilities or provide direct care to those VA serves, according to a press release issued by the agency.