Massachusetts sees almost 100 COVID-19 hospitalizations since yesterday

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

Massachusetts has seen 1,166 more positive cases announced today. A decrease from Sunday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate increased to 3.93%. The rate was 3.2 less than a week ago.

Massachusetts had seen 2,501 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 218,329 with 25 more reported dead for a total of 10,748.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 8,400,584 after 29,195 new molecular tests.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths remains at 27.

Estimated active cases increased again to 43,856.

Hospitalizations have increased in 56 of the last 77 days and 31 of the last 36, and increased by 93 to see the total raise to 1,174.
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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 30th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 13,295,605 cases of COVID-19 with 266,051 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC