Covid-19 cases are beginning to climb again in Cambridge, with 484 new infections in the seven days starting April 2. The increase is probably due to the extremely contagious BA.2 omicron subvariant, which now dominates cases in the region but, health care officials say, hasn’t created “strain on the health care system.”

West Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Hospital has shared an image of the first baby born there in the new year.

Cambridge’s two hospitals, Mount Auburn Hospital and CHA Cambridge Hospital, are full as Covid-19 case counts and hospitalizations in Massachusetts grow. Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday ordered hospitals to postpone all elective procedures likely to result in hospital admissions.

Cambridge Health Alliance is beginning to reopen offices at the former Somerville Hospital after a water main break closed the building Sept. 28. The health care system will open its urgent care center Sunday, though with permanently reduced hours.

Cambridge Health Alliance will reduce hours at its urgent care clinic in Somerville when it reopens after a water main break that forced the closing of the entire CHA Somerville Campus on Sept. 28. The clinic at the former hospital will lop one hour off weekdays and more on weekends.

Teenage psychiatric patients in a recently opened unit at the Cambridge Health Alliance Somerville campus had to move back to their original space at Cambridge Hospital this week when a major water main break shut down the Somerville building.

Cambridge Health Alliance closed its entire Somerville campus Tuesday, including the urgent care center, after a water main break damaged the building and disabled the electrical system, elevators and fire sprinklers.

Mental health professionals at Cambridge Health Alliance have been leaving recently, in part because of changes to the Alliance’s treatment model, resulting in some patients losing longtime therapists.

The boardinghouse that Harriet Jacobs ran in the 1870s is now an apartment building at Mount Auburn and Story streets. (Photo: History Cambridge) Harriet Jacobs, author of “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” lived in Cambridge in the 1870s. As his …

After returning in 1864 from work as an army nurse, Emily Parsons’ attention turned to the absence of a hospital in the city. To create one, she relied on a spirit of volunteerism and cooperation she had encountered throughout the Civil War.