More than 90 percent of federal government officials had received at least one COVID-19 vaccine by Monday as required by the White House, the White House said on the day the deadline expired.
“95% of the 3.5 million federal government employees are fulfilling this obligation and 90% have already been vaccinated,” said Jeff Zayenz, the coordinator of the fight against the New Koran pandemic, during a press conference. in the US presidency.
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the 5% difference was between the people who asked to be excluded and their request either approved or pending.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on September 9 requiring federal government employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or to undergo regular SARS-CoV-2 testing.
The White House has given federal public officials until November 22 to comply with this new health obligation.
The FBI has 99% compliance, Zayedz said, while the IRS’s 98%, with “almost 25% of its staff being vaccinated after the announcement” president “, as he stressed.
For those federal officials who have not yet complied, a “pedagogical and counseling” process will begin, the White House said. “The point is to protect workers, not to punish them,” Jeff Zayenz explained.
The Biden administration had also made vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory in private companies with more than 100 employees in the United States; however, the implementation of this decision has been suspended, at least until recently, by a decision of the American justice.
The United States is the country hardest hit by the new coronavirus pandemic in the world at full magnitude, with nearly 770,000 dead from COVID-19 out of a total of some 47.69 million SARS-CoV-2 cases.
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