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 The first buses set up in the Sunset Park community in Brooklyn,
home to Chinatown, and residents lined up around the corner for a
vaccination appointment.
"This is an approach that's really going to help us reach a lot of
people who are being missed so far," New York City's Mayor Bill de
Blasio said during a news conference on Tuesday to announce the
initiative.
"This will take the vaccinations right to them."
The one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be offered at the mobile
clinic, which can accommodate up to six people at a time. The
program aims to vaccinate about 200 people a day.
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 Restaurant workers and
restaurant delivery workers, many of whom are
undocumented, will be among the first to be
offered the vaccine, with vaccine information
offered in 12 languages.
The buses will remain in Sunset Park through
Friday, then go to other neighborhoods.
(Reporting by Reuters Television; Editing by
Karishma Singh and Himani Sarkar)
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