The variety of coronavirus circumstances reported Friday fell again down under 5,000 after Thursday’s latest excessive — however upward traits in main metrics proceed to rise.
The state’s day by day COVID-19 report tallied 4,654 new circumstances, down from the 5,576 reported the day past however nonetheless marking solely the second time the mark has been above 4,000 because the again finish of the omicron-variant-driven surge in January.
The state additionally reported 9 new deaths on Friday. The whole quantity lifeless from the virus is now 19,252.
Massachusetts continues to be in the midst of an uptick as circumstances and constructive check charges have risen over the previous month.
The seven-day constructive check common is now 8.68%. Both that and the variety of constructive assessments have climbed because the latest low in March. It’s not the kind of fast spike that introduced the colossal omicron surge this winter, which was a lot bigger, but it surely’s been a gradual climb.
And wastewater monitoring, a dependable early indicator, seems to simply be displaying additional will increase within the Boston space.
State officers reported 729 individuals within the hospital with coronavirus, although simply 223 of these are literally there due to Covid, with the remainder coming for a unique motive after which testing constructive by the way. Of these hospitalized with the virus, 64 are within the ICU, together with 22 intubated.
The common day by day loss of life fee, fortunately, hasn’t risen a lot off of its low post-omicron plateau of 4% to five% — the mark is now 7.1% and has remained largely flat for months.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”