Massachusetts COVID-19 current hospitalizations shoot past 1,000, active cases continue increase

Massachusetts saw yet another increase in active cases and hospitalizations in Saturday’s COVID-19 report.

Massachusetts has seen 2,914 more positive cases announced today. A decrease from Friday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate increased to 3.57% from 3.28%.

Massachusetts had seen 4,464 more positive cases announced yesterday from a two day period.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 214,662 with 40 more reported dead for a total of 10,676.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 8,322,705 after 72,269 new molecular tests.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths increased to 24.

Estimated active cases increased again to 42,549.

Hospitalizations have increased in 54 of the last 75 days and 29 of the last 34, and increased by 59 to see the total raise to 1,045.
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Nursing home cases, city and town metrics, and cluster information up to November 25th.
Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

According to Friday’s report, Fall River has a 92.3 Average Daily Incident Rate per 100,000 (Last 14 days) (86.2 last week) which is the third highest in the state among communities in the red. New Bedford sits at 45.6 (was 39.2). Westport is also in the red at 49.0 (was 46.0), Swansea is at 69.0 after nearly doubling last week to 65.8, and Somerset saw a small decrease to 57.5 (was 58.6). Freetown also saw their rate decrease as it now sits at 31.6.

Massachusetts residents subject to COVID-19 quarantine by current status up to November 18th
• Total of individuals subject to quarantine: 126,742
• Total of individuals who have completed monitoring (no longer in quarantine): 115,755
• Total of individuals currently undergoing monitoring/under quarantine: 10,987

As of November 28th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 12,999,664 cases of COVID-19 with 263,956 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC