The City of Boston has just added 5 languages to our COVID-19 text messaging update system and has created COVID-19 update web pages in 10 additional languages. Please help our immigrant communities have access to information in their languages by disseminating these tools widely.
For daily text message updates related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Boston, send a TEXT MESSAGE containing a KEYWORD below to 99-411. Please only use plain characters (no accents, etc.).
BOSCOVID (English)
BOSEspanol
BOSFrancais
BOSKreyol
BOSkriolu
BOSPortugues
For COVID-19 updates on the Boston.Gov website, please visit,
English: boston.gov/covid-19
Español | Spanish: boston.gov/covid-19-es
中文 | Chinese: boston.gov/covid-19-zh
Kreyòl ayisyen | Haitian Creole: boston.gov/covid-19-hc
Tiếng Việt | Vietnamese: boston.gov/covid-19-vi
kriolu | Cape Verdean: boston.gov/covid-19-cv
Русский | Russian: boston.gov/covid-19-ru
العربية | Arabic: boston.gov/covid-19-ar
Português | Portuguese: boston.gov/covid-19-pt
Français | French: boston.gov/covid-19-fr
Af-Soomali | Somali: boston.gov/covid-19-so
It would be greatly appreciated if you could share this information via your newsletters and social media.
Wishing you all health and please let us know if we can be of any assistance to all of you during these difficult times!