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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) in New York's Times Square after he toured the grand opening of a Broadway coronavirus vaccination site intended to jump-start the city's entertainment industry. (Richard Drew/AP)

NYC government workers subject to vaccine mandate as FDA authorizes Moderna, J&J boosters

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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced Wednesday that all city workers would be subject to a coronavirus vaccine mandate.  
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White House officials said they have secured enough doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the country’s 28 million children in the 5-to-11 age group.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has greenlighted a proposal to require workers to take a week off, keeping them out of their jobs, after the country set grim records for coronavirus cases and deaths for three weeks in a row.
Israel said it has identified its first confirmed case of a mutated delta variant. Known as AY.4.2, the variant has also been sequenced in Britain and the United States.
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White House officials said they have secured enough doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the country’s 28 million children in the 5-to-11 age group.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has greenlighted a proposal to require workers to take a week off, keeping them out of their jobs, after the country set grim records for coronavirus cases and deaths for three weeks in a row.
Israel said it has identified its first confirmed case of a mutated delta variant. Known as AY.4.2, the variant has also been sequenced in Britain and the United States.
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