Eligible New Yorkers will have another opportunity to sign up for monkeypox vaccine appointments on Saturday, health officials said Friday. 

The city will post 6,000 appointment slots to its monkeypox vaccine portal at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in a press release Friday afternoon. 

New Yorkers can also sign up for the appointments by calling 877-VAX-4NYC, the department noted.

The department will reserve an additional 3,000 appointment slots for “direct referrals from trusted community partners, health care facilities, and those that operate congregate settings,” according to the release.

Of the 9,000 total doses, New York state sent 4,000 of them to the city from its own supply, the release said. An additional 5,000 doses were meant for “appointments that were previously booked but unused,” the release added.

“Unfilled appointments include people who did not show up for appointments, [and] ineligible people who booked or who double-booked appointments,” the health department said. 

As of Friday, 2,130 people in New York City had tested positive for monkeypox, health department data shows. Mayor Eric Adams earlier this month declared a “local state of emergency” as cases continued to mount. 

Friday’s announcement came two days after the City Council introduced a package of legislation aimed at bolstering the five boroughs’ response to the outbreak. 

Both the city and the federal government have drawn criticism for their handling of the outbreak. 

City Councilmember Crystal Hudson, who co-chairs the LGBTQIA+ Caucus, said Wednesday that the legislation the council introduced sought “to remedy the systemic shortcomings that have hindered our ability to respond to this public health emergency effectively and efficiently.”