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Cape Cod Jail Not Accepting New Prisoners Or Visitors Because of Coronavirus

Matthew McDonald

Cape Cod's jail and house of correction has stopped accepting prisoners from local police departments and stopped allowing visitors and volunteers to try to stop coronavirus from infecting inmates and staff.

"If it got in here it would be very hard to contain," said James Cummings, sheriff of Barnstable County, which includes the whole Cape, according to The Cape Cod Times.

Church-Goers Saddened By Lack of Daily Masses
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Church-Goers Saddened By Lack of Daily Masses

Tom Joyce

Public Masses in Massachusetts's Catholic churches are not occurring amid the coronavirus pandemic, but that has not stopped some from going to church for personal prayer.

New Boston Post visited several churches on the South Shore on Wednesday, March 18.

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