New York Post

Bill mulls must-jab muni rule

- Nolan Hicks, Sam Raskin

Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday the city will be “looking at” requiring all municipal workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine, after he announced that public-hospital and other health workers must either obtain a coronaviru­s shot or receive a weekly test for the bug.

De Blasio — who said the health-care-worker policy will go into effect Aug. 2 and carry a penalty of suspension without pay if not followed — kept the door open to expanding COVID-19 vaccinatio­n mandates to other city workers to combat the spread of the virus.

“They are talking about reaching other municipal workers. We’re going to be looking at that,” de Blasio said during a remote press briefing from City Hall, when asked about San Francisco’s rule that all city workers get jabbed or face firing.

“For us, the Number 1 thing was to get to the health-care workers first and get that going. We’re going down the same kind of road and working it step by step.”

Hizzoner’s statement came as the NYPD revealed Wednesday that only 43 percent of its uniformed and civilian employees — just over 23,000 of its total 54,000 workforce — has been vaccinated.

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