With the spread of COVID-19 accelerating, Gov. Charlie Baker plans Tuesday afternoon to provide an update to the reopening guidance that has governed permissible economic and other activity during this year’s pandemic.
Boston stands at a crucial inflection point in the pandemic’s latest surge, and the arc of case growth over the next few days could determine whether city leaders reinstate a near-total shutdown, Mayor Marty Walsh warned Thursday.
With a second surge of COVID-19 transmission still underway as the holiday season begins, Gov. Charlie Baker brushed away “rumor-mongering” that the state will soon tighten restrictions but flagged clusters in houses of worship as a growing concern.
While cities like Cambridge and Pittsfield take steps to suspend indoor dining, Gov. Charlie Baker said he had not seen data that would support a statewide shutdown of restaurant table service.
Mayor Marty Walsh didn’t rule out shutting down Boston restaurants and other businesses again if the number of coronavirus cases reported in the city continues to rise.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh on Wednesday voiced support for Gov. Charlie Baker’s new round of pandemic-related orders and restrictions, cautioning of a “far worse situation” in the weeks or months ahead if spread of the contagious coronavirus is not curbed.
Leaders of two business groups criticized Gov. Charlie Baker’s new public health orders issued yesterday which require restaurants and many other public-facing firms to close early.
Gov. Charlie Baker announced new measures Monday afternoon that he called “targeted interventions” to curb a week-long spike in the number of COVID-19 cases statewide.
After a weekend that saw the number of COVID-19 deaths surpass 10,000 and as the number of people who need hospital care for a coronavirus infection rises, Gov. Charlie Baker will announce new orders related to the state’s economic reopening on Monday afternoon.
The state’s largest city will move into the highest-risk category when health officials release updated COVID-19 transmission statistics Wednesday evening and Mayor Martin Walsh said that a recent and sharp rise in coronavirus activity is due in large part to “irresponsibility.”
Starting Monday, the state is letting certain communities with sustained low rates of COVID-19 transmission move into the next step of the state’s reopening plan.
A top official at the Federal Reserve criticized the decision by many states to reopen businesses this spring before getting the virus fully under control, and said those choices have hindered an economic recovery in the U.S.
Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday that his administration is “not taking any options off the table” to keep Massachusetts safe as COVID-19 transmission inches upward, such as reducing allowable gathering sizes and reviving restrictions on businesses.
School leaders, parents and public health officials are staring at the fall with growing anxiety.
The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the U.S. government – one of several candidates in the final stretch of the global vaccine race.
With COVID-19 reopening underway in Massachusetts, developers across the region are reevaluating strategies to echo current market conditions and better meet the needs of communities and residents.
More than two months after Massachusetts embarked on its gradual economic and social reopening plan, the rate of positive COVID-19 tests is lower than it was before pandemic-shuttered businesses first began stirring back to life, Gov. Charlie Baker said Wednesday.
The coronavirus transmission rate has slipped above a key threshold in Massachusetts, just as the state was poised to have a relatively worry-free reopening.
New unemployment claims remained at inflated levels last week, even as the weekly applications continued a gradual deceleration both nationally and statewide from historic rates of growth.
The first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems just the way scientists had hoped, researchers reported Tuesday – as the shots are poised to begin key final testing.
