First Night returns in person, this time with vaccinations and precautions
Boston’s First Night celebration kicked off Friday with music, dance, and theater performances, along with some new attractions: COVID-19 vaccinations, boosters, and rapid tests.
The signature downtown bash, which went virtual last year, returned in-person to ring in 2022, although all city-sponsored events planned for indoors were moved outside in light of rising coronavirus cases.
As Sweet Harmony’s cover of Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman” reverberated through Copley Square, Stephen Wright, medical director of the Whittier Street Health Center, passed out take-home test kits to a wraparound line of about 40 people.
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