COVID-19 Massachusetts

Three Massachusetts locations of a COVID-19 testing company was shut down by the state after people reported not receiving their results.

Complaints about people not getting their test results from the Center for COVID Control have led the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office to shut down three locations.

Many residents still haven’t received the results of their COVID tests from several sites in Massachusetts run by the same company.

Pop-up COVID testing locations run by a company called Center for COVID Control in Massachusetts and the country have come under scrutiny for their operating practices, and officials on Thursday ordered that the three in the state stop operating. Tests for COVID can be hard to come by, which is why some people rely on pop-up, no appointment testing sites…

Students in Cambridge are going to class without knowing if they or their classmates are infected with COVID-19. Most of the individual test results that were expected before the first day of school after the winter break won’t be made available.  “It was a fiasco,” said Catherine Elton, a mother of two Cambridge schoolgirls. Elton sent her two daughters...

Families in Cambridge who waited in long lines are learning days later they’ll never know the results of their COVID-19 tests.

From Worcester to Cambridge and throughout Massachusetts this weekend, rapid COVID-19 tests were handed out to every public school district in the state ahead of the return to classrooms Monday from a long holiday break. But some schools will open late, or later in the week, due to COVID concerns.

Gov. Charlie Baker had strong words last week about keeping kids in school, despite a surge in COVID cases.

Teachers and staff across Massachusetts are headed back to school this weekend to pick up their COVID-19 tests ahead of their return to school this week.

More than 227,000 at-home rapid COVID tests arrived in Franklin and other towns and are being distributed to school districts throughout the state so teachers can test themselves before returning to the classroom Monday.

More than 227,000 COVID-19 test kits were distributed to school teachers this weekend. But some teachers feel it’s not enough time to do it safely.

From Worcester to Cambridge and throughout Massachusetts this weekend, rapid COVID-19 tests were handed out to every public school district in the state ahead of the return to classrooms Monday from a long holiday break. But some schools will open late, or later in the week, due to COVID concerns. Click here for Massachusetts school closings and delays Click here…

The distribution process starts Saturday afternoon.

Gov. Charlie Baker issued a mask advisory in Massachusetts, but many feel it does not go far enough and should be a mandate.

After hosting an oversight hearing that top state health officials skipped, high-ranking lawmakers are calling on Gov. Charlie Baker to consider a menu of pandemic management options, including quarantine and isolation shelters and a pause on school mask mandate exemptions. Baker on Tuesday introduced a masking advisory, outlined plans to have the National Guard assist the health care sector, and…

Lowell has become the latest Massachusetts community to enact an indoor mask mandate amid rising COVID-19 numbers. On Wednesday, the city reported 108 new cases of COVID-19 for a total of more than 23,000 since the pandemic began. The city’s vaccination rate is below the state average, as only 61 percent of eligible residents are fully vaccinated. The new indoor…

Masks are now required in most buildings in Lowell.

The Massachusetts State House is the only state capitol in the country to remain closed to the public since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Lawmakers will take up a vaccine mandate for themselves and workers here at the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill. House leaders propose anyone who wants to work from the state house will need to be vaccinated. Some republicans have come out against the mandate saying that they work for the people, not the legislature and should be allowed in…

House leaders have proposed that anyone who wants to work from Beacon Hill will need to be vaccinated.