Mayor Domenic J. Sarno and Health and Human Services Commissioner Helen Caulton-Harris are pleased to announce that there was zero (0) new COVID-19 Coronavirus cases reported in the City of Springfield on Tuesday, August 25, 2020.
Mayor Sarno stated, “This is such great news to hear. I want to thank Commissioner Helen Caulton-Harris and her team, our entire city team, the medical professionals out there and especially our residents and business community for taking this COVID-19 pandemic seriously. For the past few days, even weeks now, our daily numbers have been steadily declining. This milestone of ‘zero’ new cases on Tuesday is a testament that our approach in dealing with this ongoing pandemic is working. The City is taking these public health and safety measures out of an abundance of caution and based on the health, medical and scientific data. However, even with this good news, we cannot relent. We must remain vigilant if we are to defeat this virus. We must be able to secure and continue additional testing until there is a vaccine in order to build up our consumer and citizen confidence.”