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This week, the update contains a new community, Longmeadow, that had been previously missing from the report.
Positive test rates have gone down in Agawam, Brimfield, Chicopee, Springfield, West Springfield, and Westfield.
Meanwhile, Holyoke positive test rate has held mostly steady over the last three weeks and rates in East Longmeadow and Wilbraham went up a bit.
In Massachusetts, the goal is that by December the state will have less than 5 percent of COVID-19 tests come back positive. On Monday, Aug. 16, Gov. Charlie Baker reported the state’s 7-day positive test rate was at 1.4 percent, down from 1.8 percent just a week ago. (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 Wednesday, Aug. 12, except for Russell. In this small rural town, the positive test rate remains high, even as the number of people who have the virus is low.
Since Jan. 1 Massachusetts has had a total of 114,398 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and administered 1.9 million tests. The total number of COVID-19 deaths in the state is 8,607 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.
Agawam 510 (1.2)
Blandford <5 (0)
Brimfield 9 (0)
Chester <5 (0)
CHICOPEE 557 (3.1)
East Longmeadow 286 (1.4)
Granville 12 (0)
Hampden 99 (0)
Holland 10 (3.3)
HOLYOKE 1,029 (2.4)
Longmeadow 244 (1.4)
Ludlow 1 37 (0.8)
Monson 45 (1.1)
Montgomery <5 (0)
Palmer 62 (2)
Russell 20 (15.4)
Southwick 57 (0.3)
SPRINGFIELD 3,123 (2.4)
Tolland <5 (0)
Wales 5 (0)
West Springfield 416 (1.7)
WESTFIELD 499 (1.3)
Wilbraham 238 (1.3).
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