Mayor Scott Orders Weekly Testing For All City Employees Who Are Not Vaccinated By Oct. 18

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Mayor Brandon Scott connected Tuesday said each metropolis employees who are not afloat vaccinated by Oct. 18 volition person to taxable to play investigating for COVID-19.

“Protecting the wellness of our workforce, residents, and their loved ones is my apical priority. As we proceed to navigate this pandemic—all portion moving to reconstruct captious in-person entree and assistance for Baltimoreans—the steps we instrumentality contiguous to dilatory the dispersed of COVID-19 and the Delta variant could not beryllium much important,” Scott said successful a statement. “I convey our City employees for continuing to supply precocious prime work during these unprecedented times, and look guardant to moving hand-in-hand with our Health Department to enactment towards vaccinating everyone who is not presently vaccinated.”

In a release, Scott’s bureau noted that, truthful acold this year, 94.4% of COVID-19 hospitalizations and 95% deaths were of unvaccinated individuals.

The argumentation requires each metropolis employees to study their vaccination presumption and applies to constabulary officers and occurrence fighters, arsenic good arsenic part-time, contractual, probationary and seasonal employees, Scott said.

As portion of the policy, the metropolis volition unfastened escaped pop-up investigating clinics astatine enactment sites crossed the metropolis for employees. Additionally, 10 vaccination clinics for employees and their families are planned for the fall.

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Two vaccination clinics held successful August provided shots for 100 people, Scott’s bureau said.