"This not a 'lockdown' and essential services such as grocery stores, pharmacies and restaurants (including take-out and coffee shops — for delivery or curbside pick-up only) remain open for business," the statement said. "There is no reason to panic or rush out for supplies! Most Nantucketers are staying at home already."
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The order is scheduled to remain in effect through April 6, however town and hospital officials will review the order weekly to determine when it will be lifted.
In a Facebook post, Nantucket Cottage Hospital said the island’s first confirmed case was screened and tested there on Friday. The person “is quarantined and isolated at home, and is monitoring their symptoms with our clinicians.”
Hospital and town health officials have begun tracing the patient’s contact with other individuals as well as hospital staff, the post said.
As of Friday, 29 people had undergone testing for the virus at the island's only hospital, which has just 14 licensed beds. Of the nine results that had come back, all were negative, according to a hospital spokesman.
Neighboring Martha's Vineyard announced its first positive case Friday.
Since part-time island residents began flocking to each of the islands in recent days — many in an effort to isolate in summer homes — there have been growing concerns among local officials and year-round residents that the islands would be incapable of handling the influx in the event of an outbreak.
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On Sunday, Governor Charlie Baker said state officials want people with second homes on the islands to stop going there.
“We have talked to people on both Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard who say that a lot of people with second homes there have been going there," Baker told reporters at a press conference. "We would prefer they not do that and that they stay on the mainland and don’t create additional issues for both of those islands at a point in time where they don’t have the same level of service capacity in place they would typically have in the summer.”
“We continue to work on the strategies we have with respect to social distancing and work and we’re going to continue to adjust those as we see fit,” he added.
Nantucket officials said Sunday the decision to issue a stay-at-home order was made in consultation with island hospital and public health officials “with the intent to ‘flatten’ the rate at which coronavirus is potentially spread.”
Town officials have posted more information about “acceptable ways to stay at home” on their website here.
Matt Rocheleau can be reached at matthew.rocheleau@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @mrochele Dugan Arnett can be reached at dugan.arnett@globe.com.
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