What's cuter than a picture of a sea otter hugging her ball-of-fluff baby? A video of them together! With nearly 500,000 views, it's by far our most popular YouTube video:

Monterey County Health Department is currently scheduling COVID-19 appointments for Phase 1A, Tiers 1-3 - Healthcare Workers and law enforcement personnel that frequently respond to medical calls. Proof of sector required at vaccine appointment. Vaccination appointments are for people who live or work in Monterey County and are members of the phase and tier currently being vaccinated.

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Today the City of Monterey announced that the Monterey Conference Center has earned an accreditation as a Global Biorisk Advisory Council GBAC STAR™ facility. GBAC STAR™ is the cleaning industry’s only outbreak prevention, response and recovery accreditation for facilities. Get all the details by reading the news release.

The Monterey Police Department's Monthly Report for December 2020 has just been released. You can find it at https://monterey.org/police/Get-Informed/Monthly-Reports - please note, Monthly Reports are released approximately 30 days after the month's end once statistical data is verified.

Here are today's numbers for the 93940 zip code - we need the arrows to turn around.

Below are CHOMP's daily Covid-19 numbers and ICU capacity. Also posted at https://chomp.org/coronavirus. To see more data visit https://www.chomp.org/coronavirus/data

Have Your Say Monterey - the City's new public engagement portal:

Visit https://haveyoursaymonterey.org and register to have YOUR say!

Important Links and Daily Numbers - Note per Monterey County Health Department: Numbers may not represent true day-over-day change as reporting of test results can be delayed.

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