City of Tucson
By KTAR
The City of Tucson voted to require all city employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine, per Tucson mayor Regina Romero in an emergency City Council meeting Friday.
Romero references the rise in COVID-19 cases in Tucson due to the Delta variant as a main cause for this new mandate.
“Just today we saw 272 new cases in Pima County,” Romero said. “The percentage of positivity was 7.9%, and the numbers around the state of COVID-19 positive patients and hospitalization is going up.”
Romero references how about one year ago we saw a surge in cases around the country and how the city of Tucson did not have any clear solutions or an antidote.