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The Massachusetts 7-day positive COVID-19 test rate is at 1.7 percent, said Gov. Charlie Baker during a daily press conference on the pandemic. Reducing positive test rates to under 2 percent is a state goal.
In Hampden County, Russell is still the municipality with the highest rate of positive COVID-19 tests, countywide, over the past 14 days (16.7 percent for Russell), followed by Chicopee, West Springfield, Holyoke, and Springfield.
The state economy is now in Phase 3 of a four-phase reopening plan. The fourth phase - which would see the reopening of business such as amusement parks, spectator sports venues, bars, and nightclubs - is not slated to launch until after there is a COVID-19 treatment or vaccine.
Since the start of the pandemic, almost 1.4 million molecular COVID-19 tests have been administered in Massachusetts and there have been 107,683 cases of infection confirmed statewide, according to state data.
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:
Agawam 483 (2.1)
Blandford <5 (0)
Brimfield 7 (1.1)
Chester <5 (0)
Chicopee 488 (3.1)
East Longmeadow 277 (0.5)
Granville 12 (0)
Hampden 99 (1.1)
Holland 8 (0)
Holyoke 959 (2.6)
Ludlow 132 (1)
Monsoon 43 (0.5)
Montgomery <5 (0)
Palmer 52 (0.6)
Russell 17 (16.7)
Southwick 56 (1.1)
Springfield 2,970 (2.8)
Tolland <5 (0)
Wales <5 (0)
West Springfield 396 (2.9)
Wilbraham 227 (1.2).
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