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A spike in COVID-19 cases on Cape Cod has prompted the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to issue new protocols for long-term care facilities in Barnstable County, including nursing homes.

Free COVID-19 testing at Veterans Memorial Community Center in Provincetown has been extended through at least Monday afternoon in an effort to tamp down a spate of breakthrough infections in people who are fully vaccinated.

In early August, carpenter Michael Forgione told his mother that he was heading out to go crabbing in the brackish waters of Chilmark Pond on Martha’s…