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Governor: Most State Workers Must Be Vaccinated Or Tested

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Most of Virginia’s state workers will have to be vaccinated or agree to regular COVID-19 testing under a new requirement announced by Gov. Ralph Northam.

The governor's office said in a news release Thursday that the order will take effect on Sept. 1 and will apply to more than 120,000 executive branch employees.

It comes amid a national surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the delta variant. Most cases involve the unvaccinated.

President Joe Biden and a growing number of state and local governments and major employers are taking an increasingly hard line against vaccine holdouts.

Click here to read the full announcement

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Jahd Khalil is a reporter and producer in Richmond.
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