Massachusetts passes 200,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases as active cases continue to increase

Massachusetts saw another increase in active cases in Sunday’s COVID-19 report.

Massachusetts has seen 2,721 more positive cases announced today. A decrease from Saturday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate lowered to 3.02% from 3.21%.

Massachusetts had seen 2,991 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 200,050 with 24 more reported dead for a total of 10,512.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 7,867,762 after 110,280 new molecular tests.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths remains at 24.

Estimated active cases increased again to 39,073.

Hospitalizations have increased in 49 of the last 69 days and 24 of the last 28 and increased by 2 today to see the total raise to 893.
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Nursing home cases, city and town metrics, and cluster information up to November 18th.
Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

According to Thursday’s report, Fall River has a 86.2 Average Daily Incident Rate per 100,000 (Last 14 days) (62.5 last week) which is the third highest in the state among communities in the red. New Bedford sits at 39.2. Westport is also in the red at 46.0, Swansea nearly doubled last week’s number to 65.8, and Somerset saw an increase of over 10 to 58.6.

Bristol County has the second worst rate at 41.8 with Dukes County first at 44.6.

Massachusetts residents subject to COVID-19 quarantine by current status up to November 18th
• Total of individuals subject to quarantine: 120,415
• Total of individuals who have completed monitoring (no longer in quarantine): 112,228
• Total of individuals currently undergoing monitoring/under quarantine: 8,187

As of November 22nd, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 12,028,081 cases of COVID-19 with 255,076 reported deaths.

The United States set yet another COVID-19 daily case record Saturday with 192,673 new cases.

Courtesy of the CDC