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Two City Hall hopefuls on Sunday panned the slow rollout of the coronavirus vaccine to Big Apple residents, while offering their own proposals to get the shots into the arms of New Yorkers more rapidly.

Comptroller Scott Stringer sounded off on Twitter, while Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams held a briefing outside the headquarters of the city Department of Health.

“During the pandemic, our public hospital system has proven to be a national leader in #COVID19 testing,” Stringer wrote. “That’s why this vaccine rollout has been so frustrating — we know we can do so much better. This is the city that never sleeps — let’s act like it.”

Stringer called for the immediate vaccination of all frontline health-care workers and 24/7 vaccine distribution centers in coronavirus hot spots.

“The current speed of the vaccination rollout is not going to get the job done for our city,” he wrote. “Lives are on the line, to say nothing of our economy.”

Adams outlined a sevenpoint plan that includes expanding vaccine eligibility to include workers in high-risk industries, those with medical conditions that render them particularly susceptible to the virus, residents of the hardest-hit ZIP codes and all New Yorkers over 75.

“It has been almost three weeks since the first vaccines arrived in New York, and our city and state [are] lagging in their administration, putting lives at risk and delaying our recovery,” Adams said. “This is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week operation, and all of us must be on the ground and moving at the pace that matches the urgency of this moment.”

Mayor de Blasio has acknowledged that the city’s vaccine rollout would “unquestionably” be moving faster if not for tight state restrictions on who can receive the vaccine and when.