New York hospitals have started firing or suspending healthcare workers for defying a state order to get the Covid-19 vaccine.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told a news conference the city's hospitals were not yet seeing a major impact from the mandate, adding he worried about other areas of the state where vaccination rates are lower.

A spokeswoman for Catholic Health, one of the largest healthcare providers in Western New York, said it had reached full compliance, counting staff members who had been vaccinated, those with exemptions and some who had been suspended without pay.

Read more from Reuters here.

A person receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the coronavirus in New York City on September 27. — Reuters
A person receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the coronavirus in New York City on September 27. — Reuters

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