Coronavirus

Massachusetts has established a statewide mandate for employers to temporarily provide employees up to 40 hours of COVID-19 Massachusetts emergency paid sick leave when they are unable to work due to specific qualifying reasons related to the pandemic. The new MA EPSL benefit is in addition to existing paid time-off …

Are you a New Bedford Public School student who not only wants a COVID vaccine but Domino’s Pizza and Dunkin’ Donuts gift cards? Here’s how in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and K’iche: “FREE COVID-19 VACCINE CLINICS for NBPS Students 12 years and older, and families begin next week. Parents must be …

The Waterfront Vaccination Center located at Hervey Tichon Avenue and operated by CIC Health will end its walk-up vaccination clinics and close this weekend, the operator announced. Its final day of walk-up operation will be Sunday, May 30. Vaccines will be available this weekend including Saturday, May 29 and Sunday, …

Housing, legal and community advocates will convene at a virtual Town Hall at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 25 to discuss avenues available to residents who are at risk of being evicted due to job loss or loss of income. The town hall is being hosted by the Department of …

Today (Monday May 24th, through Wednesday May 26th), a special COVID-19 vaccine clinic will be set up at Titleist Ball Plant III, 215 Duchaine Blvd. Below are details about the clinic: Location: 215 Duchaine Blvd. Days/times: Monday, May 24, 2pm-7pm Tuesday, May 2,5 7am-7pm Wednesday, May 26, 7am-7pm Vaccine type: …

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“SCAMBAG ALERT — PLEASE SHARE Check out this email that I received this morning. Though it only took me about 2 seconds to figure out that it was garbage, to an unsuspecting person who is concerned about COVID, test results, etc., it could look real. As always, we recommend that …

Today, the Baker-Polito Administration announced that the Commonwealth is on track to meet the goal of vaccinating 4.1 million residents by the first week of June and all remaining COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted effective May 29. The Commonwealth’s face covering order will also be rescinded on May 29. The …

FALL RIVER, NEW BEDFORD, and WAREHAM, Mass. – Southcoast Health announced on Thursday that its upcoming Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination clinics, offered across the region, will now be open to individuals 12 and older, while walk-up availability will continue at all of the not-for-profit community health system’s sites. Southcoast’s decision follows …

For Immediate Release: May 12, 2021 Contact: Media Relations (404) 639-3286 Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH “Today, I adopted CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommendation that endorsed the safety and effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and its use in 12- through 15-year-old adolescents. CDC now recommends that this …