Vast disparities in immunization levels persist between the city’s communities.

A man exits a mobile vaccination van after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine administered by NYC Test & Trace Corps in partnership with Mixteca, a community organization serving primarily Spanish-speaking and indigenous Latin American populations in Sunset Park.

Maria Meneses, left, speaks with Mixteca community organizer Nicole Rojas while waiting to get a COVID-19 vaccination in a mobile vaccination van parked on a street in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, Monday, March 29, 2021, in New York. As part of New York City’s ongoing efforts to increase access to the COVID-19 vaccine citywide, NYC Test & Trace Corps added mobile vaccination to its community vaccine clinic program Monday, launching a clinic-on-wheels with community partner Mixteca, a community organization serving the Spanish-speaking and indigenous Latin American population in the area.

New York state residents over 30 will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations starting Tuesday, and everyone over 16 will be eligible starting April 6, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.

With many in New York still struggling to find appointments for the COVID-19 vaccines, the city is now partnering with community organizations, like Mixteca, to place mobile vaccine buses in neighborhoods in the most need of help.

Sunset Park nonprofit works to get Latin community inoculated against COVID-19