Florida, United States.
The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, Noted Monday that any county or city in the state that requires its employees to be vaccinated will face a fine of $ 5,000 a measure that strengthens the position of the republican of challenge the federal plan of immunization.
“We’re going to defend men and women that are serving us. Let’s protect them Florida jobs“, He said DeSantis during a press conference offered in Alachua County (northern state).
According to the Tampa Bay Times, apply them many they could add millions of dollars to the so-called local governments “State of the Sun.”
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, Announced last week lto vaccination mandatory against the covid-19 of all federal government employees, and launched a plan to force them to do the same most workers of private country companies.
A day later, DeSantis promise to “fight” the vaccination plan announced by Biden, which -to specify- will affect all companies that have 100 employees or more, a sector in which they work at least 80 million of people across the country.
DeSantis also expressed that with the eventual order of vaccines at Biden companies is “acting outside the limits of the Constitution “.
One of the first reactions to what was said by the governor on Monday was that of the mayor of Orange County (central Florida), Jerry Demings, Which already established a requirement for vaccination of this type.
“I’m not going to take action that has an adverse impact on the safety of our community. Sometimes, frankly, I wonder if the governor really sees it that way or not. He can say yes, but I think a lot of the decisions he makes have a purely motivation politics “, Demings noted, according to NBC 2 in Orlando.
Orange, one of the state’s 67 counties, established that all of its officials must be partially vaccinated before the September 30 and completely before the October 31st.
The Attorney General of Florida, Ashley Moody, who accompanied DeSantis today at the press conference held in the town of Newberry, he criticized the mayors of cities and counties aligned with the federal order.
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“It’s illegal. It’s inconceivable that we trust these people to be thrown in front of a bullet by other people, but we don’t trust them to make a decision for their own safety,” Moody’s said.
There are currently 11,547 people hospitalized in Florida diagnosed with covid-19 and, of these, 2,820 in units of intensive surveillance, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Florida reported 33,078 new cases of covid-19 and another 975 deaths from the disease since last Friday, the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. EFE