New Yorkers age 30 and over can get the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, and people 16 and over can get it next week

Connor Perrett
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A man gets the Pfizer vaccine at a pop-up vaccination clinic New York City's Chinatown on Friday. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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  • New Yorkers age 30 and over are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine beginning Tuesday.

  • All New Yorkers age 16 and up will become eligible for the vaccine next Tuesday, April 6.

  • The move puts New York ahead of Biden's push to make vaccines available to all adults by May.

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All New Yorkers ages 30 and above will be eligible to sign up to get the COVID-19 vaccine starting Tuesday morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.

New Yorkers 16 and over will be eligible to sign up to receive the vaccine beginning next Tuesday, April 6, at 8 a.m., he said, meaning all adults in New York will be eligible next week.

Data from the state indicates that 16% of the population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, having received both doses of Pfizer's or Moderna's two-shot vaccines or Johnson & Johnson's single-shot vaccine. Just over 29% of the population has received at least one dose of the two-shot vaccines.

President Joe Biden has directed states to make vaccines available to all adults in the US by the beginning of May.

About one-third of people in the US have been at least partially vaccinated against COVID-19, an analysis by The New York Times found.

As of Monday, more than 4,500 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in New York, with 890 people in intensive-care units. On Sunday, 57 people died from the virus in New York.

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