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Meanwhile, in West Brookfield and Webster, the 14-day COVID-19 positive test rate is going down.
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 Worcester County community met that 5 percent goal in the most recent reporting period released by the governor’s office on Friday, July 31.
In Brookfield the positive test rate went up from 1 percent on July 17, to 1.9 on July 29, the most recent information available. North Brookfield went up from 1.2 on July 17 to 1.9 on July 29.
West Brookfield's positive test rate has decreased over the last three reporting periods starting at 2.5 on July 17 and dropping to 0.5 on July 29. The same can be said for Webster, which went from 2 percent to 1 percent.
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 A GRAPHIC SHOWING POSITIVE RATES SINCE JULY 17.
Athol 68 (0.3)
Barre 62 (0)
Brookfield 22 (1.9)
Clinton 261 (1.2)
East Brookfield 13 (0)
Fitchburg 814 (1.3)
Gardner 199 (0.6)
Hopedale 47 (0.9)
Hubbardston 7 (0)
Leominster 718 (1.6)
Lunenburg 67 (0.5)
Milford 668 (1.5)
North Brookfield 20 (1.9)
Northborough 227 (0.9)
Oxford 84 (1.4)
Petersham 7 (0)
Rutland 54 (0)
Shrewsbury 346 (1.5)
Southbridge 185 (2.1)
Spencer 61 (2.9)
Sturbridge 45 (0.8)
Upton 25 (0)
Uxbridge 80 (0.4)
Warren 26 (0.8)
Webster 270 (1)
West Brookfield 24 (0.5)
Westborough 345 (0.8)
Winchendon 89 (0)
Worcester 5,483 (2.2)
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