According to the digital edition of the Fall River Herald, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday updated its recommendations in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, urging everyone in high risk areas to wear masks in indoor public spaces to prevent transmission, even vaccinated people. 

CDC is asking people who have not yet been vaccinated against COVID-19 to “get vaccinated and mask until you do.” People who are vaccinated against COVID can be at risk of getting breakthrough infections of the delta variant of COVID-19 and transmitting it to others. 

Fall River, Taunton and New Bedford cases have begun to increase slightly for the past two weeks or longer.