To encourage young people to get COVID vaccines before the first day of school on Sept. 13, the city is opening 25 pop-up vaccination sites at Summer Rising programs starting Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday.

The sites will rotate across different schools participating in Summer Rising, running from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Aug. 13. All minors will need verbal consent from a parent at the time of the shot, either in-person or over the phone, and students 15 and under must be accompanied by an adult in order to receive the shot.

So far, more than 226,000 of New York City’s 12- to 17-year-olds — roughly 43% — have gotten at least one dose of the COVID vaccine, de Blasio said on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show. City officials are hopeful that by making vaccines more readily available to students, rates of vaccination will increase before schools reopen. But time is running out. The new school year is about seven weeks away, and the current two-dose vaccine takes about five weeks to take full effect after the first shot.

Read the full article about vaccine pop-up clinics in NYC by Pooja Salhotra at Chalkbeat.