COVID testing

The city of Salem, Massachusetts, has released details for when its free walk-up rapid COVID testing center downtown will be open through the Halloween season. People going to large indoor Halloween events in the Witch City will have to test negative for the coronavirus, its board of health recently decided, in a bid to prevent the virus’ spread on top…

An information technology glitch with an outside vendor led to a delay in reporting COVID-19 cases causing Vermont’s daily cases on Thursday to be artificially inflated, state officials said. Vermont had reported a new, single-day record of 314 new cases that day. The number was inflated by 109, the state said on Friday. The glitch has been resolved, officials said….

Health officials in Salem will decide Friday whether to require negative COVID tests before Halloween revelers attend large, ticketed, indoor events this season.

People going to large indoor Halloween events in Salem, Massachusetts, will have to test negative for COVID-19. The Board of Health voted Friday to require anyone attending indoor festivities where there are more than 100 people, regardless of vaccine status, to provide a negative test. The policy will be in effect from Oct. 1 through Nov. 1. The huge crowds…

Halloween revelers would need to test negative for COVID before attending large, ticketed, indoor events in Salem, Massachusetts, this October under a proposal being considered on Friday. The Witch City’s board of health will hold a special meeting on the subject, Mayor Kim Driscoll said in a Facebook post Thursday. “Given what we have seen with the Delta variant...

The Boston Public Health Commission wants anyone who visited Provincetown in July to get tested and self-isolate until receiving a negative test result.

Wednesday is the deadline for middle schools in Massachusetts to return to full in-person learning. Students in grades K-8 who opted for in-person learning will return to classrooms five days a week.

While many are getting vaccinated and cases are going down in the state, the governor stressed that everyone needs to remain vigilant.

There are new concerns that February break could lead to a surge in cases as students return to school. Districts across Massachusetts are taking precautions to make sure students and staff members are healthy before returning to the classroom. Hanover and Concord are just two of several districts requiring students and staff members to get tested if they traveled out…

Pooled coronavirus testing could be coming to your child’s school in a couple of weeks. So what is it and how does work?

On Sunday, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced that free, mobile COVID-19 testing is available to anyone regardless of symptoms.

Two new COVID-19 testing sites on Cape Cod will be open by next week with the ability to test over 500 people a day and put a “dent” in what Sen. Julian Cyr and others have described as a testing desert in Barnstable County.

Gov. Charlie Baker announced expanded free COVID-19 testing on Monday — sites will now be in 25 communities — and hinted that more restrictions could be coming as the state continues to see a surge in cases of the virus.

Nearly 60 people are contracting the virus everyday in Revere, where the feeling is, if you don’t have COVID-19, you know someone who does. The city is one of many rapidly responding to the surge in cases, with two free testing sites already open, and a third on the way come Sunday.

Coronavirus cases are surging in Milford, but the town doesn’t have a state-sponsored, free testing site, something health officials argue would allow them to get a better handle on the situation and possibly even send kids back to school.  It’s the same situation on Cape Cod, where there isn’t a single “Stop the Spread” testing site — Massachusetts launched...

Public health officials and state legislators are calling for action when it comes to COVID ‘testing deserts’ in Massachusetts — areas where there isn’t a single “Stop the Spread” testing site.

There’s been a rush of people getting COVID-19 tests after the Thanksgiving holiday. People told NBC10 Boston on Monday that they waited in lines longer than six hours just to get a drive-thru test inside a Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare tent.

With so many families gathering and traveling for Thanksgiving, despite warnings from the CDC, experts expect a rush on coronavirus testing. Dr. Shira Doron, of Tufts Medical Center, shares what to expect for those getting COVID-19 tests after the holiday.

As Massachusetts hit another milestone Sunday, with the state passing 200,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, hundreds waited in line in Salem to get tested for COVID-19 ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

About 700 Salem residents came out for free COVID-19 testing on Sunday.