Winthrop's health department has hired a dedicated "COVID-19 inspector," tasked with helping enforce state and local public health regulations.
I'm definitely concerned for what, thenext few weeks and few months we'regonna hold.
Winthrop is among dozens ofMassachusetts communities in so calledred zones among its new tools to combatthat a newly hired part Time Cove itinspector.
If we provide education andre education, the community, we hopetoe prevent any sort of enforcement orfinding the inspector may follow up onparty complaints, but also see thatbusinesses or following guidelines andseeing to it that the public wears amask even outside the town has issuedtwo citations for backyard parties, atrend the governor and health officialsbelieve is driving the rise in cases InRevere, where a new testing locationopen today, authorities not onlythwarted an event they arrested theorganizer.
We believe that asymptomaticspread is an underlying cause of ourrising cases here.
Social mediamonitoring, community outreach and 311is stopping or finding similar superspreading events in Everett in SouthBoston and beyond.
The governor has sofar mentioned no plans to roll backphases.
But in Pembroke town, officialsannounced today they are.
What we haveto do is continue to be a vigilant aswe can be and to try to take some ofthe discipline in the vigilance thatwe've seen in formal settings and bringit to informal setting.And today, the state announced itsplans to the federal government todistribute this vaccine.
When itbecomes available.
First, it will go tohealthcare workers than those at highrisk and essential workers.
Multiple towns across Massachusetts are creating new positions in their local governments to enforce COVID-19 restrictions...