Monterey County health officials encourage flu vaccines amid Covid-19 pandemic
MONTEREY COUNTY ā Officials with Monterey County Health Department and local hospitals urged the public to get flu shots in time for the upcoming flu season during a media briefing Oct. 21.
Representatives from Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey, Salinas Valley Memorial...
Monterey County Covid-19Ā community testing sites change hours and days
MONTEREY COUNTY ā Hours and days are changing for the state-supported community Covid-19 testing sites in Monterey County.
According to Monterey County Health Department, the demand for testing has decreased as more of the population has received Covid-19 vaccinations and access to home testing has...
Monterey County schools likely to stay closed through end of school year
MONTEREY COUNTY ā Monterey County schools are likely to remain closed through the end of the 2019-20 school year due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.
According to online reports Tuesday, Monterey County Superintendent of Schools Deneen Guss announced in a letter to parents that the...
Greenfield McDonaldās offers free Big Macs for vaccine registrants
GREENFIELD ā Community members who registered for a Covid-19 vaccine at McDonaldās in Greenfield recently were able to get a free Big Mac.
The two-day event was held Aug. 6 and 7 in partnership between McDonaldās and Virus Integrated Distribution of Aid (VIDA) Monterey County,...
U.S. tops 3 million Covid-19 vaccines a day
For the first time, more than 3 million people, on average, are receiving a COVID-19 vaccine each day in the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And Saturday the country reported over 4 million doses in a...
New York City and California to require vaccines or tests for workers
The push to mandate coronavirus vaccinations amid sharply rising caseloads nationwide accelerated Monday, as the countryās most populous state and its largest city both announced that they would require hundreds of thousands of government workers to get inoculations or face weekly testing.
At the same...
Pop-up sites increase access to Covid-19 testing for South Monterey County residents
SALINAS VALLEY ā Free pop-up Covid-19 testing sites have been emerging lately in South Monterey County as part of an effort to increase testing access after a new site was added to Castroville to the existing lineup of Salinas and Seaside.
When available, local residents...
Vaccine clinics in Greenfield, Soledad reach out to area farmworkers
SALINAS VALLEY ā Monterey County residents were able to get vaccinated with six sessions of a mass Covid-19 vaccination effort last weekend at Greenfield Memorial Hall and Soledad Community Center.
A total of 3,000 vaccine doses were distributed at the events, which were separate from...
Northwest Laboratory to open new Covid-19 testing site in Salinas
SALINAS ā Northwest Laboratory will open and operate a new drive-thru Covid-19 testing site in Salinas starting March 3.
āOur organization has worked closely with the communities across the U.S. since this pandemic began, providing laboratory analysis for multiple community testing programs,ā said Jennifer Bull,...
Monterey Countyās first bulk order of Covid-19 tests arrives
MONTEREY COUNTY ā Monterey County is making good on its commitment to invest up to $1 million to secure more Covid-19 rapid tests for the community, with the first direct purchases from this effort arriving last week.
About 750 test kits were delivered last Wednesday,...
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Jury convicts Greenfield man of child molestation
GREENFIELD ā A Monterey County jury has convicted a 34-year-old Greenfield man of five counts of child molestation, the Monterey County District Attorneyās Office...






















