Massachusetts public health officials reported 1,817 new cases of COVID-19 and 29 more deaths on Sunday.
There are 30,772 active coronavirus cases, as of Sunday, another figure that’s increased slightly over the last few days, according to the state Department of Public Health. For several days last week, the number of active cases was around 25,000. On Saturday, the state reported 29,806 active cases.
Over the last month, the number of new cases overall had previously been declining following a peak in the winter. Before Sunday’s total, the state reported three straight days of more than 2,000 new cases.
Sunday’s new totals are based on 75,179 new molecular tests. The state’s seven-day average rate of positive tests stands at 2.28%, a slight decrease from Saturday’s 2.35%. Last month, the state saw lows of 1.8%.
Throughout the pandemic, at least 592,778 Massachusetts residents have tested positive for the virus and 16,775 have died.
Currently, 657 people are hospitalized with the coronavirus, including 141 patients in the intensive care unit and 92 who are intubated. Hospitalizations increased from 654 reported by DPH on Saturday.
Nearly 3.4 million Massachusetts residents have received at least one vaccine shot; 1.25 million are fully inoculated, according to DPH’s daily vaccination report.
The state’s daily COVID-19 data dashboard was released about four hours later than usual on Sunday evening due to “technical issues,” DPH said.
Nearly three dozen towns and cities were labeled high risk for spreading the virus this past week, an increase from 20 the week prior.
More than 30.2 million Americans have contracted the virus since the pandemic hit the U.S. a year ago. Almost 550,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University. The New York Times database on COVID-19 now shows an average of 61,583 new cases per day over the past week, a 12%-jump over the average from two weeks ago.
In an interview with CBS News, Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor, noted the U.S. has seen a decrease in overall new cases since the winter, but once again plateaued at a high number of new cases per day, a dynamic that’s previously turned into significant surges in both the U.S. and Europe.
“We got stuck at around 50,000 new cases per day, went up to 60,000 the other day,” Fauci said. “And that’s really a risk.”
Spring break and “pulling back on the mitigation methods” such as social distancing, mask wearing, tight travel guidelines, capacity limits and shortened hours at many businesses likely plays a role in the recent uptick in cases in at least Massachusetts, New York, Michigan and New Jersey, Fauci argued.
Here are the total COVID-19 cases by county:
Barnstable County: 1,891
Berkshire County: 5,421
Bristol County: 59,378
Dukes County: 936
Essex County: 88,703
Franklin County: 2,190
Hampden County: 45,378
Hampshire County: 8,240
Middlesex County: 121,081
Nantucket County: 1,280
Norfolk County: 49,468
Plymouth County: 43,704
Suffolk County: 83,962
Worcester County: 69,904
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