The delta water line will impose employee costs on the company’s $ 200 per month’s health plan if they fail to vaccinate against Covid-19, the airline top executive policy is needed because the average hospital for the virus costs $ 40,000.
Ed Bastian Chief Executive Officer said that all employees who had been hospitalized for the virus in recent weeks were not fully vaccinated will ask workers who were not set to test the weekly starting September 12, even though Delta would cover costs.
They must wear masks in all company settings in the room.
Delta stopped shortly from the unit of United Airlines, which would require employees to vaccinate from September 27 or termination of faces.
However, at an additional cost of a monthly $ 200, which began in November, it may have the same effect.
Syreasts said that 75% of Delta employees were vaccinated, up from 72% in mid-July.
He said the aggressiveness of the leading strain of virus “ means we need to get more of our people who are vaccinated, and as close as possible “.
Delta CEO refers to Covid-19 mutations from India by the medical name, B.1.617.2, Instead of more general terms, Delta variants, companies’ names.
The new case reported in Covid-19 in the US now reaches 150,000 a day, the highest level since being late in January, although the level of improvement has slowed.
Southwest, spirit and borders have blamed the virus To slow customers who order flights, and US air travel continues to fall more than 20% of the pre-pandemic 2019.Delta and United already need new employees to vaccinate.
Other US major airlines, including America and Southwest, said they encouraged employees to be vaccinated , but it has not required its KS in the room immediately apply.
More and more companies include Chevron Corp and CVS Chain Medicines M The announcement they will ask workers to vaccinate after this week’s decision by feeding food and drugs to provide instead of approval only permission for emergency use to the Pfizer vaccine.
The FDA step can increase the level of US vaccination, which fell from 3.4 million shots a day in April to around 500,000 a day in July.
Since it climbed around 850,000 a day because of growing concerns about the increasing number of new infections caused by Delta variants.