test to enter a slate of businesses beginning next month as concerns grow over the spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus.
Mayor Rick Blangiardi said the new program, dubbed “Safe Access Oahu,” will go into effect Sept. 13. It mirrors rules that many locations across the nation have adopted since the Food and Drug Administration gave its full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Aug. 23.
“This is about public health — with numbers like nothing we’ve seen before,” Blangiardi said, pointing to surging infection rates and full hospital wards. “We’re begging, begging people to get vaccinated, and anywhere we can enforce it we will.” Today, we announced a new program called “Safe Access O‘ahu” as part of our collective efforts to aggressively counteract the surge of