All New Yorkers ages 30 and above will be eligible to sign up to get the COVID-19 vaccine starting Tuesday morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.
New Yorkers 16 and over will be eligible to sign up to receive the vaccine beginning next Tuesday, April 6, at 8 a.m., he said, meaning all adults in New York will be eligible next week.
Data from the state indicates that 16% of the population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, having received both doses of Pfizer's or Moderna's two-shot vaccines or Johnson & Johnson's single-shot vaccine. Just over 29% of the population has received at least one dose of the two-shot vaccines.
#BREAKING: Starting Tuesday, April 6 at 8am, all New Yorkers age 16+ will be eligible to schedule and receive the COVID-19 vaccines.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) March 29, 2021
And beginning tomorrow at 8am, all New Yorkers age 30+ will be eligible to schedule and receive the vaccines.
Let’s #VaccinateNY
President Joe Biden has directed states to make vaccines available to all adults in the US by the beginning of May.
About one-third of people in the US have been at least partially vaccinated against COVID-19, an analysis by The New York Times found.
As of Monday, more than 4,500 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in New York, with 890 people in intensive-care units. On Sunday, 57 people died from the virus in New York.
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