Amidst increasing positive COVID-19 cases in Puerto Rico, Governor Pedro R. Pierluisi has issued an executive order requiring those working in healthcare and education settings to get vaccinated and boosted. Covered individuals must get a COVID-19 booster shot on or before January 15, 2022.
Executive Order 2021-082 applies to “employees or people working on healthcare setting facilities (including, but not limited to hospitals, clinical laboratories, emergency rooms, medical services clinics, health centers, primary care physician and specialists offices, therapy centers, blood banks, pharmacies, nursing homes and medical cannabis dispensaries), regardless of their duties” and “teaching and non-teaching staff, as well as contractors working in schools, educational centers and universities, public or private.”
According to the Executive Order, individuals are eligible for the booster shot, if they were either:
Vaccinated against COVID-19 using any of the two-dose FDA-approved or authorized vaccines and six months have passed after their last dose
Vaccinated against COVID-19 using the one-dose FDA-authorized vaccine and two months have passed since their dose
Individuals who are not eligible to get a booster shot as of the issuance of Executive Order 2021-082 (December 22), because of a medical condition or any other reason, must get their booster shot within 30 days after they become eligible to do so.
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