Haverhill officials will convene an emergency meeting Thursday as coronavirus cases rise in the city, earning a high-risk designation for transmission from the state.
Haverhill is among 23 communities considered high-risk for transmitting COVID-19 in the state's latest data on the pandemic, putting the city in the red-zone on its community-level risk assessment map. The city's health department has reported 129 cases and 146 positive tests in the past two weeks.
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Mayor James Fiorentini called an emergency meeting with the Haverhill Board of Health Thursday to discuss the rise in cases and a plan for Halloween. He plans to ask the board to require that restaurants identify customers for contact tracing and mandate masks downtown.
"We've been a totally green community up until now. All of a sudden we've seen a big jump in cases," Fiorentini said. "We've saw some of it connected with a house of worship, and some of it connected with a nursing home, and unfortunately some of those that began to spread into the community."
The city will also look at putting all school and recreational sports on hold. As for Halloween, Fiorentini said there will have to be an alternative to traditional trick-or-treating given the rising numbers.
Plans are in place to step up testing efforts with help from the state. A free testing site will open at the corner of Winter and Locke Streets Thursday through Saturday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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