Mayor Walsh Announces $1.7 Million in New COVID Grants on One Boston Day

Uncategorized 2026-07-22 clip6259 · Meeting of July 22, 2026

BOSTON — Mayor Walsh marks One Boston Day 2020 with COVID surge warning and $1.7 million in new equity grants. Speaking on April 15, Walsh announced $1.7 million in new Boston Resiliency Fund grants directed at community health centers in Mattapan, Roxbury, Dorchester, and East Boston to expand COVID-19 testing in the city's hardest-hit neighborhoods; the fund had raised more than $25 million in its first month, with $12 million already out the door. Walsh disclosed that city models projected Boston's surge peak between April 26 and 28, with 4,286 confirmed cases and 84 deaths as of April 14.

The city released race and ethnicity death data publicly for the first time, showing Black, Latino, and Asian or Pacific Islander residents together accounting for 58 percent of recorded deaths. Liberty Mutual separately committed $15 million in grants to Boston-based nonprofits, and the Map Free Foundation pledged $500,000 for first-responder supplies. Walsh opened the briefing by mourning Boston Police Officer Jose Fontanez, a 29-year department veteran who died the previous day from COVID-19.

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Source: the Uncategorized 2026-07-22 clip6259 meeting of July 22, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.