Apple to help employees get Covid19 vaccine at office
Apple said on Friday that it is starting a program to help employees get voluntary COVID-19 vaccinations at the iPhone maker’s offices. Apple is one of the first large Silicon Valley companies to launch a program to help workers get vaccinated.
The company is working with drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc as its vendor and will open a website for its workers to sign up for appointments, an Apple spokeswoman said.
America, which restarted administering Johnsons & Johnson jab amid reports of blood clots has registered 31,730,950 COVID-19 cases as of now. As of April 24, at least 137,234,889 or 41.3 per cent of the US has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccines while 91,175,995 or 27.5 per cent of them have been fully vaccinated. As per the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country has received 286,095,185 doses of vaccines out of which 222,322,230 million have been administered.
Last month, Amazon.com Inc started onsite vaccinations for front-line employees, starting in Missouri, Nevada and Kansas.
