Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont announced on Thursday that he plans to order nursing home staff and contractors who have close contact with residents to be vaccinated by February 11, and pointed out the COVID-19 of the state’s staff The infection rate is rising.

The order is expected to be signed by the Democrats on Thursday night, and it will also apply to workers in other long-term care facilities, including assisted living and residential care homes, and 3,600 state employees working in state chronic care hospitals, such as Connecticut Valley Hospital and Huai’an. Ting Forensic Hospital.

At the same time, the Connecticut Hospital Association announced that it is revising its statewide mandatory vaccination policy for hospital and health system staff and clinical staff, requiring them to also receive booster vaccines. Other private hospital systems elsewhere in the United States, including the Boston area, require additional doses.

Connecticut was one of the first states to implement such authorizations for nursing home employees. In California, approximately 2.5 million healthcare workers must be vaccinated against the coronavirus by February 1, or they will face the risk of unemployment. New Mexico also requires certain categories of workers to receive booster injections.

New data released on Thursday showed that from December 22 to January 4, there were 2,148 employees infected with COVID-19, up from 242 cases from December 8 to December 21. At the same time, the number of resident cases increased from 136 to 829. period. In the past month, 26 residents died, but no employees died.

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Lamont predicts that requiring nursing home staff and others to receive a third dose will bring a “huge bonus.”

“This will open up the capacity of our hospital and make it easier for us to transfer people from the hospital to the nursing home,” he said.

Dr. Deirdre Gifford, Lamont’s health consultant and Commissioner of the Department of Social Services, stated that employees affected by the governor’s new executive order will not be able to conduct tests as an alternative.