Town's Coronavirus Cluster Linked To House Party: Patch PM
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Chatham health officials are alerting restaurants after nine people, with restaurant ties, tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a house party in Chatham earlier this month.
Dr. Robert Duncanson, Director of Chatham's Department of Public Health, said social distancing and mask-wearing was not enforced at the party that around 60 people attended. That decision is now impacting the Cape community.
"Young people here in the summer, are often working at restaurants and they're hanging out with each other," said Tracy Shields, owner of Hangar B in Chatham.
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Alvin Campbell, the brother of Boston City Councilor Andrea Campbell, was already being held on $250,000 bail. He now faces multiple charges of rape, kidnapping, and recording a nude person without consent for crimes that allegedly happened between 2017 and 2019.
Investigators say Campbell targeted women at or near bars who were intoxicated and had summoned a ride share driver.
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Roenicke didn't go into details about what was bothering Rodriguez, other than to say it was lingering effects from the virus and not unique to the 27-year-old.
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This article originally appeared on the Boston Patch
