D.C.’s mayor says adults in schools and eligible student-athletes must get vaccinated by Nov. 1.

U.S.|D.C.’s politician says adults successful schools and eligible student-athletes indispensable get vaccinated by Nov. 1.

• Published Sept. 20, 2021Updated Sept. 21, 2021, 11:26 a.m. ET

All adults and eligible student-athletes who are regularly successful schools and kid attraction centers successful Washington, D.C., indispensable beryllium afloat vaccinated against Covid-19 by Nov. 1, the district’s politician said connected Monday.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s announcement eliminates an earlier investigating option for schoolhouse employees but retains exemptions for spiritual oregon wellness reasons.

Cities including New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago person besides introduced vaccine requirements for schoolhouse employees without a investigating option. Such mandates became much wide aft the Food and Drug Administration afloat approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine successful August.

In the Washington requirement, successful summation to the schoolhouse employees, student-athletes who are 12 oregon older (and truthful eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine) besides person to beryllium vaccinated to prosecute successful “extracurricular athletics.” Student-athletes who crook 12 betwixt Monday and Nov. 1 indispensable beryllium afloat vaccinated earlier Dec. 13.

No coronavirus vaccines person been federally authorized for children younger than 12, meaning they marque up a sizable unvaccinated population. Pfizer and BioNTech announced connected Monday that their vaccine was recovered to beryllium harmless and highly effectual successful children aged 5 to 11. If the F.D.A. authorizes its usage successful children — an exertion is expected by the extremity of the period — millions of students could beryllium inoculated successful the weeks afterward.

More children person been sickened by the coronavirus since the highly transmissible Delta variant became dominant. Children are inactive acold little apt to go severely sick than adults, but galore schools and districts crossed the state person closed temporarily due to the fact that of outbreaks.

Federal guidance recommends that schools enforce measures similar masking and societal distancing, and that arsenic galore radical arsenic imaginable get vaccinated to support students safe.

At a quality league connected Monday, Ms. Bowser said that “we consciousness precise assured that our unit person truly adopted and accepted the vaccine, for the astir part.”

She continued, “It’s precise clear, particularly for our young radical who are not eligible for the vaccine yet, that the champion mode to support them is to person the adults astir them vaccinated successful summation to each of the different mitigation strategies that we use.”

The vaccine request volition use to virtually everyone who regularly spends clip successful schools, including teachers, coaches, principals, librarians, guidance counselors, autobus drivers, information personnel, custodians and volunteers, on with student-athletes.

Public, private, charter and parochial schools are each included successful the rule, arsenic are kid attraction facilities regulated by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education.

Ms. Bowser said that parents volition not request to beryllium vaccinated to driblet disconnected their children, but “schools mightiness privation to code their protocols wherever they don’t person a batch of adults lingering successful the buildings.”

Apoorva Mandavilli contributed reporting.