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California to require proof of vaccination for state workers

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By Maya Skinner

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) � California will require state employees and all health care workers to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or get tested weekly.

It comes as officials aim to slow rising coronavirus infections, mostly among the unvaccinated.

Officials announced Monday that the new rules will take effect next month. There are at least 238,000 state employees.

Health officials couldn’t immediately provide an estimate on size of the health care workforce in the nation’s most populated state. About 62% of all eligible Californians are fully vaccinated, and the state has struggled to make significant progress in recent weeks.

The more contagious delta variant now makes up an estimated 80% of infections in California.

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New York City also announced Monday all municipal workers will be required to get the vaccine  by mid-September or face weekly COVID-19 testing.

The number of vaccine doses being given out daily in the city has dropped to less than 18,000, down from a peak of more than 100,000 in early April.

About 65% of adults in the city are fully vaccinated.

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