Walsh: Boston likely won’t cancel Halloween, no lockdown yet
Mayor Martin Walsh said he isn’t planning on canceling Halloween, also adding he doesn’t believe there’s a need to move back toward a lockdown — yet.
Walsh generally answered in the negative Thursday when asked about whether the coronavirus will end up causing the city to can trick-or-treating this year.
“If we’re going to cancel trick-or-treating, we have to have a real good reason why we’re doing that,” Walsh said, speaking on a WCVB livestreamed question-and-answer segment. “But I think that the fact that it’s outside — we just have to think about what are the precautions.”
The mayor mused about people keeping candy wrapped and sick people avoiding giving out sweets. He said that the city hasn’t made a final decision yet, and will do so in consultation with medical professionals.
“I need to keep young people happy in our city — they’ve had a tough year themselves,” Walsh said.
Gov. Charlie Baker, speaking in Salem on Tuesday, said he couldn’t cancel Halloween celebrations on the state level.
Walsh, in the WCVB Q-and-A, was also asked about whether the city, with its ongoing uptick in cases, is headed back toward the type of lockdowns that it was under in the peak of the virus surge in the spring.
Walsh said such steps were eventually “possible” if numbers trend badly, “I don’t think we’re close to a lockdown today.”
On Wednesday, the mayor announced that Boston now is above the long-discussed seven-day positive test rate average of 4%, causing the mayor to “pause” the back-to-school plan.
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