Massachusetts COVID-19 cases pass 450,000 with 53 more reported deaths

Massachusetts saw an increase in active cases and hospitalizations in Monday’s COVID-19 report.

Massachusetts has seen 3,224 more positive cases announced today. A decrease from Sunday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate saw an increase to 5.91%. Yesterday’s rate of 5.85% was the lowest the rate had been since the beginning of December. The rate was 3.3 on November 23rd.

Massachusetts had seen 4,283 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 451,535 with 53 more reported dead (52 confirmed, 1 probable) for a total of 13,705 (13,424 confirmed, 281 probable).

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 12,398,580 after 49,917 new molecular tests.

The 7 day average of COVID-19 deaths is currently 62.

Estimated active cases increased to 98,750.

Hospitalizations have increased in 88 of the last 126 days and 63 of the last 85 and saw an increase of 41 to see the total raise to 2,206. Before today, there were three straight days of decreases in hospitalizations, four in five days, and 10 out of the last 12 days.

Nursing home cases and cluster information issued on January 14th.
Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

According to the January 14th report, Fall River has a 153.6 Average Daily Incident Rate per 100,000 (Last 14 days) (112.5 last week) which is 7th in the state. New Bedford saw an increase to 134.3 (was 97.9). Westport is also in the red at 96.4 (was 67.4), Swansea is at 109.3 and was 77.5 last week. Somerset also saw an increase as they sit at 104.9 (was 80.6). Freetown increased to 112.1 from 82.9. Dartmouth is currently at 113.2 after seeing 88.2 last week.

Massachusetts residents subject to COVID-19 quarantine by current status up to January 14th
• Total of individuals subject to quarantine: 205,082
• Total of individuals who have completed monitoring (no longer in quarantine): 180,573
• Total of individuals currently undergoing monitoring/under quarantine: 24,509

Massachusetts Officials have now also issued a “vaccine doses administered and shipped” report updated on January 14th.
weekly-covid-19-vaccination-report-1-14-2021

As of January 17th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 23,653,919 cases of COVID-19 with 394,495 reported deaths (Updates were not done by the CDC today due to the holiday).

Courtesy of the CDC