COVID19 – Boston City Hall Update – 4-19-2020
Today at noon, the Walsh Administration is deploying seven Boston Public Works trucks with sound equipment to broadcast messages on COVID 19 safety tips and urging residents to stay indoors. The messages will be broadcasted throughout the neighborhoods of Boston but will focus on those hit hardest by the virus – including Hyde Park, Mattapan, Dorchester, East Boston, Roxbury and Roslindale. The messages will be broadcast in seven different languages including English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Vietnamese, Arabic, Somali and Cabo Verdean Creole.
The City continues to use phone banking and literature drops to small businesses, senior citizens and neighborhood residents – urging safety precautions and physical distancing. The City is posting signage with similar messages on street signs and other infrastructure.
COVID-19 CASES: BY THE NUMBERS
BOSTON: 5,400 CONFIRMED CASES (926 RECOVERED AND 158 DEATHS)
Updated as of Saturday, April 18
MASSACHUSETTS: 36,372 CONFIRMED CASES
Updated as of Saturday, April 18
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