NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – With the first delivery of the corona vaccine from the US corporation Johnson & Johnson, which was approved in the USA at the weekend, several vaccination centers in New York are now supposed to work around the clock. In the Yankee Stadium in New York’s Bronx, in the Javits Center convention center in Manhattan and in a vaccination center in the north of the state of New York, vaccination should be carried out around the clock until the first 164,800 doses of the vaccine expected this week have been administered said Governor Andrew Cuomo at a press conference on Wednesday.
Unlike the other previously approved vaccines, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine only needs to be injected once. So far, around 15 percent of people in the state of around 19 million people, which was the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States last spring, have received at least one dose of a corona vaccine. The Johnson & Johnson preparation is the third corona vaccine to be approved in the United States.
At the press conference on Wednesday, Cuomo also promised further minor easing – for example, the number of people who are allowed to meet in the open air is to be increased. Recently, among other things, cinemas in the metropolis of New York were allowed to reopen to a limited extent.
However, the Democratic governor Cuomo warned against easing too quickly, as he is observing in other states. For example, the Republican Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, announced that it would lift mask requirements and all capacity limits for restaurants and other businesses in his state ./cah/DP/men
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