Massachusetts sees 86 COVID-19 deaths reported last two days as hospitalizations, positive rate continue to increase

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

Massachusetts has seen 2,501 more positive cases announced today. A decrease from Friday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate increased to 3.80% from 3.57%. The rate was 3.2 less than a week ago.

Massachusetts had seen 2,914 more positive cases announced yesterday from a two day period.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 217,163 with 36 more reported dead for a total of 10,722.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 8,371,390 after 48,685 new molecular tests.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths increased to 27.

Estimated active cases increased again to 43,709.

Hospitalizations have increased in 55 of the last 76 days and 30 of the last 35, and increased by 36 to see the total raise to 1,081.
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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 29th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 13,142,997 cases of COVID-19 with 265,166 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC