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World Business Report: First broadcast 06/12/2021 22:32 GMT : New York City to impose vaccine mandate on all private sector workers

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New York City to impose vaccine mandate on all private sector workers

First broadcast 06/12/2021 22:32 GMT 

First broadcast 06/12/2021 22:32 GMT : New York City to impose vaccine mandate on all private sector workers

BBC World Service - World Business Report, New York City to impose vaccine mandate on all private sector workers

All New Yorkers will need to be vaccinated if they want to go to work, says the mayor.

All New Yorkers will need to be vaccinated if they want to go to work, the city's mayor has announced.

All New Yorkers will need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 if they want to go to work, the city's mayor, Bill de Blasio, has announced. Employees in the public sector already need to be inoculated, but the mandate will now be extended to all private sector employees. The policy will take effect on 27 December, making it the strictest vaccine mandate to be imposed anywhere in the US. We speak to the BBC's North America Business Correspondent, Samira Hussain about what the new rules mean. Also, Russian president Vladimir Putin has held high level talks with India's PM Narendra Modi. On the agenda were defence deals involving India purchasing Russian jets, and we discuss the visit with Snehesh Alex Philip, senior associate writer for The Print based in Delhi. We also get the US perspective on the meeting from Michael Kugelman, who is senior associate for south Asia at the Wilson Center think tank. Also in the programme, the BBC's Ivana Davidovic investigates America's private adoption industry, and finds out about some of the problems faced by those seeking to adopt, and those sometimes pressured into giving up their children. Plus, we hear from Julia Poliscanova, who is e-mobility lead at Transport and Environment, about concerns that cars powered by synthetic, or so called 'e-fuels', may emit as many poisonous fumes as those with fossil fuel engines. 

(Picture: Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke to crowds in New York City. Picture credit: Getty.)

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