'Go to vaccine-only admission' -Cuomo to businesses

At a news briefing, he also said that employees of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and New York workers for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees bridges, airports, and other infrastructure in the two states, would need to be vaccinated by Labor Day on Sept. 6 or submit to weekly testing.

And Cuomo added that vaccines could become mandatory for nursing home workers and teachers if case numbers do not improve.

The push by Cuomo marks the latest attempt by government leaders to spur reluctant Americans to get vaccinated as the Delta variant of the coronavirus surges nationwide, infecting mostly unvaccinated people.