Martha's Vineyard Hospital reported another 11 new positive coronavirus tests Thursday morning, bringing the weekly case total to 54 as a recent Covid spike continues unabated.

Health officials reported four additional new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, continuing an upward case trend that has occurred across the Island, state and country.

After months of review, Edgartown’s VTA Church street committee gave a strong endorsement to a controversial plan to install three electric bus induction chargers at the downtown bus terminal.

The Tisbury School reported its second positive case on Monday and the Edgartown School reported its first. The cases come two days after a student who attends the Tisbury school tested positive on Friday.

The 20 new cases alarmed public health officials as they try to stem the Island’s largest case surge since the pandemic began.

As dawn rose over Inkwell beach in Oak Bluffs Sunday morning, dozens of jubilant Islanders — many of them Polars Bears — spontaneously gathered as one, plunging into the sea.