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Parents Facebook Meta . Platform A spokesperson confirmed to CNBC that it will stop insisting that employees must receive Covid-boosting injections to visit its US facilities.
Tech companies have already begun the process of attracting their workers back to their corporate campus. Meta, as well as MicrosoftUS offices are held to reopen on Monday.
“We updated our requirements in early March to align with CDC guidance and now Covid-19 boosters are no longer required to enter, although recommended,” the developer said. language written in email. “The primary vaccination requirement (one or two shots) still applies.”
The face appeared less than three months after the social network operator Notice the rules to return to the office.
A spokesperson for Meta did not provide an explanation for the change.
In California, where Meta is headquartered, 71 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, while 35 percent has been vaccinated, according to the New York Times. The number of cases has fallen since January, the paper’s data showed.
Applealso based in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, requires employees to show proof they’ve received a booster shot, tech news website the Verge reported in January.
US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday Authorised a second Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna booster shot for people 50 years of age and older at least four months after receiving the first booster shot.
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