State well being officers on Thursday reported a weekly enhance of 4,497 confirmed COVID instances, because the constructive check price stored dropping throughout the Bay State.
The state’s each day common of 642 COVID instances from the final week is down from the each day price of 789 virus infections through the earlier week.
The state’s constructive check common has been declining in latest weeks. The seven-day constructive check price is now 5.44%, down from 5.80% final week.
The state additionally reported that 562 complete sufferers are hospitalized with COVID, which is up 22 sufferers from this time final week. However, the hospitalization information included up to date numbers from the earlier week as a consequence of a reporting delay from one massive hospital system.
Before hospitalizations began to lower in latest weeks, Massachusetts had been seeing a hospitalization rise following a spike within the Boston-area COVID wastewater information.
The state reported 72 new COVID deaths over the previous week, bringing the state’s complete to 22,303 recorded deaths because the begin of the pandemic. The each day common of deaths is now 9, which is decrease than the each day demise price through the preliminary omicron surge.
More than 5.5 million individuals within the state have been totally vaccinated, and greater than 3.3 million individuals have gotten at the very least one booster dose. Also, the state reported that greater than 1.3 million further booster doses have been administered.
The Boston Public Health Commission and CIC Health are increasing COVID providers with the opening of the brand new Lena Park vaccine and testing web site. The web site, situated at 150 American Legion Highway in Dorchester, will open on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
CIC Health co-founder and CEO Tim Rowe mentioned, “Our continued partnership with BPHC to stand up testing and vaccinations clinics is crucial as we head into the colder months and expect surges of COVID and flu.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”