COVID 'Cluster' Hits Provincetown, Affecting Vaccinated, Unvaccinated
July 19 2021 6:51 PM EDT
Officials in Provincetown, Mass., are advising residents and visitors to mask up indoors as they work to contain a rise in COVID-19 cases.
Issued Monday, the new guidance recommends that all individuals in Provincetown, vaccinated and unvaccinated, wear masks indoors when social distancing is not possible. The Cape Cod beach town has seen a rise of COVID cases since the July 4 holiday weekend, with 132 confirmed cases reported to the state department of health as of last Friday, according to
The Boston Globe. Eighty-nine of those positive cases were among Massachusetts residents, while the others affected people living outside the state or nation. Surprisingly, the COVID diagnoses affected both the unvaccinated and vaccinated.