BERLIN — The city is closing the recreation center and library and advising staff to stay home at the first sign of sickness as part of steps it is adopting to reduce exposure to COVID-19.
At Monday’s city council meeting, City Manager James Wheeler outlined a series of steps developed Monday in a meeting with department heads. He explained the goal of the preventive steps is to minimize large peaks in the number of infections or (flatten the curve) to avoid overwhelming the capacity of the health-care system.
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