Coronavirus evening update: Omicron spreading in community and vaccine mandate for NYC workers
will need to be vaccinated if they want to go to work from 27 December
, the city's mayor has announced. Public sector workers already have to be inoculated but the mandate will be extended to all private sectors employees. Mayor Bill de Blasio told MSNBC the city had decided to use a "pre-emptive strike", with the Omicron variant a "new factor".Nigeria has called the UK's hotel quarantine rules "travel apartheid" after the country was placed on the red list amid fears over the Omicron variant.
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