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The mayor spoke to the crowd at the parade.
The city's mayor has announced that all New Yorkers will need to bevaccinated if they want to go to work.
Private sector employees will be required to be inoculated, even though public sector employers already have to be inoculated, according to Bill de Blasio.
He said the policy will take effect on December 27.
Mr de Blasio said that New York City would use a pre-emptive strike.
He said that Omicron was a new factor and that the colder weather would create new challenges for the Delta variant.
Vaccine mandates are the one thing that doesn't break through.
New York will be the first US city to mandate vaccines for private sector workers.
The mandate for public sector workers that came into force earlier this autumn met vocal resistance and led some employees to leave their jobs. Rates of vaccination went up in response to the policy.
There are ten cases of the new Omicron variant that have been identified in New York City and the surrounding area.
A person attended an event in Manhattan on November 23, mixing indoors with hundreds of other people.
It should be assumed that there is already a community spread of the variant in New York, according to Mr de Blasio.
He urged other cities to follow in his footsteps and mandate private sector workers.
I would advise mayors, governors, CEOs all over the country to use vaccine mandates. The more universal they are, the more likely employees will say, "okay it's time I'm going to do this, because you can't jump from one industry to another or one company to another." It needs to be universal to protect us all.
New York's business community had adopted and enforced vaccination requirements for eating indoors at restaurants, events and gyms, according to Mr de Blasio.
Congress and the courts have stopped President Biden's nationwide policy to mandate vaccines for the private sector.
There are vaccines for coronaviruses.
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A coronaviruses epidemic.
