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Meanwhile, in Springfield, the 14-day COVID-19 positive test rate went up a little from last week to 2.9 percent, but it’s still below a high of 3.4 percent in the city earlier this month.
In Massachusetts, the goal is that by December the state will have less than 5 percent of COVID-19 tests come back positive. On Aug. 1, Gov. Charlie Baker reported the state’s 7-day positive test rate was at 2.1 percent, up from a low of 1.7 percent earlier this month. (Massachusetts does not provide 7-day positive test rates for municipalities, only 14-day rates.)
Every Hampden County community met that 5 percent goal in the most recent reporting period released by the governor’s office on Friday, July 31 - except for Russell. The rural town has a 6.3 percent 14-day COVID-19 positive test rate. This isn’t so wild, however, in small communities, just a few people getting sick can skew data to make things sound worse than they are. For example, Russell has a high positive test rate, but only 16 people in the town have contracted COVID-19 since Jan. 1.
In Chicopee the positive test rate went up from 2.9 percent on July 22, to 3.3 on July 29, the most recent information available. Wilbraham went up from 0.8 on July 22 to 1.5 on July 29.
West Springfield’s positive test rate has decreased over the last three reporting periods starting at 3.4 on July 17 and dropping to 2.9 on July 29.
Since Jan. 1 Massachusetts has had a total of 110,077 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and administered 1.55 million tests. The total number of COVID-19 deaths in the state is 8,406 people.
Here is a breakdown of local COVID-19 data: presenting the total number of infections recorded per community since the beginning of the pandemic and the 14-day positive test rate, percent in parenthesis ( ), for the cities and towns in your community:
CLICK HERE FOR AN INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC SHOWING POSITIVE RATES SINCE JULY 17.
Agawam 493 (2.4)
Blandford <5 (0)
Brimfield 9 (2.4)
Chester <5 (0)
Chicopee 509 (3.3)
East Longmeadow 278 (1)
Granville 12 (0)
Hampden 99 (1)
Holland 9 (2.9)
Holyoke 980 (2.3)
Ludlow 132 (0.4)
Monson 44 (0)
Montgomery <5 (0)
Palmer 56 (1.4)
Russell 16 (6.3)
Southwick 56 (0)
Springfield 3,033 (2.9)
Tolland <5 (0)
Wales 5 (2.4)
West Springfield 404 (1.9)
Westfield 483 (2.1)
Wilbraham 230 (1.5)
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