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PLYMOUTH – The numbers are dropping, but there is still concern over the local spread of COVID-19, including the fact that the more contagious United Kingdom variant is now on the doorstep of Plymouth.
On Sunday, state officials announced that two cases of the B.1.1.7 variant have been detected in Plymouth County. The communities where these individuals live are not being released, though.
“We don’t provide town-level data, just county level, for medical privacy reasons,” said Omar Cabrera of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in an email.
According to Karen Keane, Plymouth’s Public Health director, she has no way of telling if any of the COVID-19 cases recorded in this town are of the UK variant.
COVID-19 variant seen in Hampshire County
Published: 2/15/2021 6:56:05 PM
NORTHAMPTON A Hampshire County man in his 20s is one of 29 people in the state known to have had a case of the B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant since mid-January.
The state Department of Public Health said it could not say what town it was detected in, and that it can provide county level data only “for medical privacy reasons,” Ann Scales, a DPH spokesperson, said in an email on Tuesday.
First detected in the U.K., the virus mutation is more easily spread, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The first case of the B.1.1.7 variant in the state was detected Jan. 17, according to the DPH. “Four of those 29 cases have evidence of recent travel, suggesting that the majority of cases identified in Massachusetts are community-acquired,” the DPH announced Sunday.
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February 11, 2021
“For us at Agri-Packing, this year so far has certainly evolved with many challenges,” indicated Jorge Ruiz, salesperson for Agri-Packing Supply Inc. Agri-Packing is a major supplier of a wide range of supply products for Mexican produce grower-packers.
Omar Cabrera and Jorge Ruiz of
Agri-Packing Supply Inc. at a meeting
of the Fresh Produce Association of the
Americas in Tubac, AZ.
Ruiz told
The Produce News on Jan. 30 that obstacles have ranged “from hikes in the prices of raw materials used in the products we sell, to prolonged lead times from the places we source our products, to longer lines all over due to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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Gov. Charlie Baker announced Wednesday that health care workers, long-term care residents and employees and first responders will be in the first wave of people to be vaccinated against COVID-19 starting as early as this month.
The general public, including people under 65, will have to wait until April or June to start the process of vaccination.
“We’re on the right track,” said Deirdre Arvidson, Barnstable County public health nurse. “There’s a light at the end of the tunnel.”
Baker said the first 60,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, expected to receive emergency use authorization from the FDA today, are scheduled to arrive in Massachusetts by Wednesday.