Hundreds call to report their neighbors on Rhode Island’s social gathering hotline
The hotline manned by Rhode Island State Police had received more than 400 calls as of Sunday.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Hundreds of calls have been made to a new Rhode Island hotline set up for people to report people violating the rule against large gatherings.
The hotline manned by Rhode Island State Police had received more than 400 calls as of Sunday, Lt. Col. Kevin Barry said. Troopers responded to 56 of the calls and found four events violating the 15-person limit on social gatherings, including a reception after a funeral and a college party, police said.
Barry said officers reminded people of the restrictions and asked them to comply.
Rhode Island registered one more death from COVID-19 and 176 newly reported positive cases over the weekend, state health officials said Monday. The state Department of Health also said 93 people are currently hospitalized with the virus, the highest total in more than a month.
The new cases bring the state’s coronavirus death toll to more than 1,000 and its total cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic started to nearly 20,000.
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