NYers Will Get Paid Time Off To Get Coronavirus Vaccine

NEW YORK — New York workers will not have to worry about taking unpaid time off from their jobs to get the coronavirus vaccine, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday.

Cuomo said he will sign a bill that grants employees in both public and private positions paid time off to get their COVID-19 vaccinations, up to four hours per shot.

"Our goal is to be COVID safe," Cuomo said.

On Sunday, Cuomo said more than 6.5 million vaccine doses have been administered across New York, with 130,350 in the last 24 hours and more than 1 million in the past seven days.

"Thanks to our robust distribution infrastructure across the state and the men and women who work tirelessly to get shots into people's arms, we are quickly working through our weekly vaccine supply," Cuomo said. "We are still millions of shots away from critical mass, and as our weekly allocation from the federal government grows, we will ramp up our efforts to continue our outreach to underserved communities and the most vulnerable New Yorkers."