New Covid cases on Martha’s Vineyard have leveled off after an uptick over the past two weeks, according to the Island boards of health.

Cases of Covid-19 crept up slightly on the Vineyard last week, as public health officials keep a close eye on the numbers with new sub-variants of the virus emerging around the globe.

TestMV, the Island’s free coronavirus testing site, will close at the end of March, some 22 months after it launched to overwhelming demand at the start of the pandemic.

Martha’s Vineyard schools reopened Monday after winter break without a face-covering requirement for the first time in two years.

Marking another turning point in the pandemic, Islanders can now shop, dine out and enter most public buildings without masks.

Martha’s Vineyard boards of health will take up the question of whether to continue the mandatory Islandwide indoor mask mandate this week, as regional and national guidance shifts toward a looser approach to face coverings in public.

With Covid cases dropping sharply on the Island, health officials are poised to reconsider the school mask mandate that has been in place for most of the past two years.

With the end of the state-imposed school mask mandate less than two weeks away, Island school committee members split Thursday on whether or not to immediately drop the mandates.

New cases of Covid-19 on the Island continued their downward trend, with 74 cases confirmed for the week ending Friday, Feb. 11 and just 14 more in the five days since.

The question of whether employees of the Steamship Authority can be required to be vaccinated will be decided in federal court.

Two years after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic began, the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital reported its first on-Island death from the coronavirus Tuesday.

Two years after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic began, the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital reported its first on-Island death from the coronavirus Tuesday.

As the only federally qualified community health center on the Island, Island Health Care has been at the forefront of the recent surge in the distribution of at-home test kits.

Mirroring the statewide trend, Covid-19 cases on Martha’s Vineyard are seeing a sharp decline following a record spike in early January.

Although suspected during the recent Covid-19 surge, the Island’s first detection of the Omicron variant was finally confirmed this week in a sample sent out for sequencing.

New cases of Covid-19 are on the decline following a surge that saw record case counts, boards of health reported Monday. Free distribution of at-home test kits will continue through the week

A shipment of rapid Covid-19 tests to the Island from the federal government was delayed this week, with test kits supplies in most towns depleted.

Cases of Covid-19 on the Island continued to spike with 457 confirmed cases for the week ending Jan. 15, Island boards of health reported, as free test kit distribution continues this week.

Covid-19 test kits will be available for pick up on Jan. 19 and 20 for residents of Chilmark from the board of health office.

With Covid-19 now racing through the Vineyard community, boards of health issued a public health message Tuesday urging Islanders to take steps to protect themselves from infection.