Tag: Charlie Baker
Massachusetts expands COVID-19 vaccination requirements
BOSTON (AP) – All employees at Massachusetts' rest homes, assisted living residences, and hospice programs, as well as workers who provide in-home direct care...
Gov. Baker: All long-term care workers must be vaccinated
BOSTON (AP) – Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker announced Wednesday that his administration will begin mandating that staff working in long-term care facilities receive COVID-19...
Federal pandemic aid can help now and the long term
While Rhode Island state leaders are focused on hoarding an estimated $1.1 billion in new federal pandemic aid, a different political dynamic is playing...
Baker urges fishing industry to apply for $24M in virus aid
BOSTON (AP) – Massachusetts' fishing industry is being urged to apply for nearly $24 million in federal coronavirus relief funds.
Gov. Charlie Baker's administration said...
Massachusetts pandemic-era of emergency ends
BOSTON (AP) – Even though Massachusetts' state of emergency was lifted Tuesday after 462 days of the COVID-19 pandemic, residents should not notice many...
UMass Dartmouth receives $150K grant to help bolster workforce readiness
DARTMOUTH – The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and partners Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Mass., and the University of Massachusetts School of Law were...
UMass Dartmouth directors honored for COVID-19 response
MARIANNE SULLIVAN, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s director of health services, and GREG HOMOL, the university’s fitness center director, recently received the 2020 Manuel Carballo...
COVID-19 restrictions to be lifted May 29 in Massachusetts
BOSTON (AP) – All remaining COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted in Massachusetts on May 29, Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday.
Baker announced the decision at...
Mass. to begin phasing out COVID-19 business restrictions, relax outdoor mask...
BOSTON (AP) – Massachusetts will begin phasing out pandemic-related business restrictions next month and is relaxing its outdoor mask mandate, as the numbers of...
General public in Mass. can get vaccinated starting April 19
BOSTON (AP) – All residents of Massachusetts age 16 and older will be eligible for a coronavirus vaccine beginning April 19, Gov. Charlie Baker's...
