13, which is the first full day of school, every single city employee will be expected to be either vaccinated or be tested weekly.

New York City will require all municipal workers to be vaccinated against the coronavirus by the time schools reopen in mid-September or face weekly testing, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday morning.

de Blasio said, “and so on Sept.

13, the first day of school, every single city employee will be expected to be either vaccinated or be tested weekly.”.

Dave Chokshi, the city’s health commissioner, calling on all city employees to get vaccinated sooner than the September deadline.

de Blasio said he was acting out of a sense of urgency, so city officials had not yet spoken with all of the municipal unions involved.

Those the city had spoken with, he and other city officials said, had reacted positively.

“This approach puts the emphasis on vaccination, but still allows for personal choice and provides additional safeguards through regular testing,” Alison Gendar, a spokeswoman for the teachers’ union, said in a statement.

The city’s largest public employees’ union, however, said on Monday that there were still steps to be taken before it would consent to the testing requirement.

“New York City is a union town, and that cannot be ignored.”.

The city’s education department estimates that around 60 percent of its employees are vaccinated, about the same rate as for employees at the city’s public hospitals.

New York City’s vaccination rate as a whole is 65 percent for adults, better than the national average, but there are some neighborhoods where the rate is under 40 percent.

City health and hospital employees must be vaccinated or get tested weekly starting Aug.

de Blasio said the city will reinforce a current rule requiring all unvaccinated employees to wear masks indoors at all times.

Cuomo said the money would be steered to six community-based organizations that would spearhead outreach efforts and localized education campaigns to reduce vaccine hesitancy, especially in low-income, minority communities in New York City.

Cuomo did not appear inclined to require state employees be vaccinated or subject to regular testing, arguing that most public-facing government employees are municipal, not state workers

de Blasio said the threat of the Delta variant made the new steps by the city necessary