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New York City “does not have enough doses” of Covid-19 vaccine to “be able to meet the demand we know exists among New Yorkers,” the city’s health commissioner Dave Chokshi told CNN on Monday.
Chokshi said the current supply, only a few thousand doses, will be used in the next 24 to 48 hours and that New York City.
This Sunday morning I want to be clear:
Our vaccination plan will be fair and equitable and we will fight to get supply to New Yorkers.
When it is your turn – take it. Trust science.
Some 8.8% of global working hours were lost in 2020 due to the pandemic, roughly four times the number lost in the 2009 financial crisis, but there are “tentative signs” of recovery, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said on Monday.
The losses were equivalent to 255 million full-time jobs and included an “unprecedented” 114 million workers joining the ranks of the unemployed and others whose working hours were reduced due to restrictions, it said.
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