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Massachusetts sees over 6,200 cases of COVID-19 in the last 6 days as hospitalizations continue to increase

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Massachusetts continues to see a rise in positive test rate in Tuesday’s COVID-19 report.

Massachusetts has seen 1,025 more positive cases announced today. A decrease from Monday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate increased once again and is now at 1.7%.

Massachusetts had seen 1,216 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 149,361 with 7 more reported dead for a total of 9,664.

13,727 tests were performed on new individuals, over 6,300 less than yesterday’s report, to increase the amount of individuals tested to 2,665,975. The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 5,781,231.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths increased to 16.

Hospitalizations have increased in 28 of the last 43 days, as they increased by 17 today to see the total raise to 567.
DPH_COVID-19 Dashboard_10-27-2020

Nursing home cases and cases by City and Town up to October 21st.
Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

Massachusetts residents subject to COVID-19 quarantine by current status up to October 21st
• Total of individuals subject to quarantine: 98,806
• Total of individuals who have completed monitoring (no longer in quarantine): 94,080
• Total of individuals currently undergoing monitoring/under quarantine: 4,726

As of October 27th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 8,680,611 cases of COVID-19 with 225,084 reported deaths.


Courtesy of the CDC

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