Worcester City Hall open for appointments Monday
They had been closed at different levels since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Department of Public Works and Parks offices, and 25 Meade St., which houses Inspectional Services, Worcester Division of Public Health and Fire Prevention, are also set to reopen for appointments on Monday.
All three buildings will be open for appointments 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Friday.
All branches of the Worcester Public Library will continue to offer curbside service for holding and pickup up books. The main branch only will begin to offer bookings for use of computers beginning Feb. 1. Registration for computers starts Wednesday.
New coronavirus cases in Worcester County have again broken a record, and this time deaths are also on the rise, according to new Massachusetts Department of Public Health data.
More than 150 UMass Medical School students are being trained to help quickly administer COVID-19 vaccinations in Worcester.
The students are part of an effort the Worcester school detailed on Wednesday to provide the highly anticipated shots to first responders, including firefighters and police officers, as well as residential care facility residents. Chancellor Michael Collins and UMass President Marty Meehan have also advocated for similar widespread vaccination efforts statewide.
More than 30,000 vaccinations have been shipped to health facilities in Worcester County as of Dec. 31, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, enough to cover 3.6% of the county s population. That s a share of more than 285,000 doses shipped statewide. More than 78,000 shots have been administered, according to the DPH, including what Worcester city officials have said are thousands at UMass Memorial Health Care and Saint Vincent Hospital.
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Coronavirus cases in the city of Worcester have risen by nearly another 1,000 in the past six days, indicating a sustained high level of spread in the weeks after Thanksgiving.
That rate roughly tracks with the past few weeks. The city s previously reported eight-day period a day longer than normal because of the Dec. 17 snowstorm included a count of 1,390. The new count of 977 over six days reported on Thursday represents a slight drop from the past two weeks.
Though cases have stopped rising, they remain far higher than before Thanksgiving, and Worcester Mayor Joe Petty said Thursday that the city is increasing enforcement of business regulations that limit how many people can be gathered indoors at once. Many have already been warned, and compliance will be aimed most at repeat offenders.