President Biden of the United States has announced that federal officials will be required to be vaccinated or regularly tested as a countermeasure against the spread of the mutant virus.
President Biden announced at a press conference on the 29th that federal officials and contractors would be required to be vaccinated against the new coronavirus or tested at least once a week.
"Pandemic is happening among unvaccinated people. The most effective defense is to get vaccinated," Biden said.
We also called on each state and local government to cooperate in providing newly vaccinated people with $ 100 and about 11,000 yen in Japanese yen.
According to the CDC = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 70% of people over the age of 18 have been vaccinated at least once in the United States, but more than 86,000 new cases were confirmed on the 28th in India. The infection is spreading due to the influence of the mutant virus "Delta strain".
New York and California have similar policies regarding vaccination and mandatory submission of test results, but a group of some federal officials said that President Biden's announcement was a "civil rights infringement." There are also voices that repel, such as.