The city has rolled out Boston Public Works trucks with sound equipment to broadcast messages about COVID-19 in seven different languages on Sunday.The messages to residents, which will be broadcast in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Vietnamese, Arabic, Somali and Cabo Verdean Creole, include: Stay home as much as you can Wash your hands often Cover your face when out Keep your distance from othersThe trucks have been deployed to the neighborhoods that have COVID-19 rates higher than the rest of Boston, including Hyde Park, Mattapan, Dorchester, East Boston, Roxbury and Roslindale.The city is phone-banking essential small businesses and will be providing posters in multiple languages that ask customers to cover their faces and practice distancing. The city is also putting up on street signs and other infrastructure. During the weekend of March 21, city employees and volunteers delivered printed information on COVID-19 to all homes in Boston. The city has also been delivering literature in multiple languages to essential businesses.Residents who have questions are encouraged to call 311 or the Mayor's Health Line at 617-534-5050 or online at boston.gov/coronavirus#multilingual-help. Residents and organizations interested in volunteering their language skills for COVID-19 communications can sign up here.

The city has rolled out Boston Public Works trucks with sound equipment to broadcast messages about COVID-19 in seven different languages on Sunday.

The messages to residents, which will be broadcast in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Vietnamese, Arabic, Somali and Cabo Verdean Creole, include:


Stay home as much as you can

Wash your hands often

Cover your face when out

Keep your distance from others

The trucks have been deployed to the neighborhoods that have COVID-19 rates higher than the rest of Boston, including Hyde Park, Mattapan, Dorchester, East Boston, Roxbury and Roslindale.

The city is phone-banking essential small businesses and will be providing posters in multiple languages that ask customers to cover their faces and practice distancing. The city is also putting up on street signs and other infrastructure.

During the weekend of March 21, city employees and volunteers delivered printed information on COVID-19 to all homes in Boston. The city has also been delivering literature in multiple languages to essential businesses.

Residents who have questions are encouraged to call 311 or the Mayor's Health Line at 617-534-5050 or online at boston.gov/coronavirus#multilingual-help.

Residents and organizations interested in volunteering their language skills for COVID-19 communications can sign up here.