Massachusetts sees continued rise in active COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, as tests hit 8,000,000

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

Massachusetts has seen 2,225 more positive cases announced today. An increase from Monday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate decreased to 3.02% from 3.06%.

Massachusetts had seen 1,785 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 204,060 with 20 more reported dead for a total of 10,551.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 8,000,861 after 80,819 new molecular tests.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths lowered to 22 from 23.

Estimated active cases increased again to 40,449.

Hospitalizations have increased in 51 of the last 71 days and 26 of the last 30 and increased by 32 today to see the total raise to 954.
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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 24th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 12,333,452 cases of COVID-19 with 257,016 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC