page_title: Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts
section_title: April 1–7
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts / April / April 1–7
caption_attribution_description: English: Playground closed off as a health measure to prevent coronavirus
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts.
context_section_description: The Archdiocese of Boston announced that eight priests had tested positive for the disease. On April 2 Boston Mayor Walsh announced plans to convert the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC) into a field hospital, later named Boston Hope, with 500 beds assigned to the homeless and 500 to accept COVID-19 patients from city hospitals.
  On April 2, more than 500 healthcare workers in Boston hospitals were reported to have tested positive for COVID-19.
  On April 5, Boston Mayor Walsh announced a voluntary city-wide curfew for non-emergency workers in Boston from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., and asked all Bostonians to wear face coverings in public.
caption: Closed playground in Salem on April 4, 2020.
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