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This week, the update contains new communities that were previously missing from the report.
Worcester’s positive test rate went from 2.5 percent last week to 2 percent positive this week. Testing in Worcester has ramped up over the last week with new testing locations and free tests.
Unfortunately, the positive test rate for COVID-19 shot up in Fitchburg and Spencer. Last week the two communities showed declines in positive tests.
Meanwhile, Sturbridge and Warren have seen significant declines in their test rates from one reporting period to the next.
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 Worcester County community met that 5 percent goal in the most recent reporting period released by the governor’s office on Wednesday, Aug. 12.
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.
Ashburnham 35 (1)
Athol 69 (0)
Auburn 233 (1.9)
Barre 62 (0)
Berlin 21 (0)
Blackstone 63 (2.7)
Bolton 12 (0.5)
Boylston 23 (0)
Brookfield 23 (21.)
Charlton 105 (2.3)
Clinton 286 (1)
Douglas 50 0.(4)
Dudley 102 (1.5)
East Brookfield 13 (0)
FITCHBURG 839 (2)
GARDNER 202 (0.6)
Grafton 103 (0.5)
Hardwick 10 (0)
Harvard 18 (0)
Holden 19 (0.7)
Hopedale 48 (0.8)
Hubbardston 8 (0.8)
Lancaster 108 (1.6)
Leichester 164 (1.1)
LEOMINSTER 740 (1.5)
Lunenburg 71 (1.1)
Mendon 32 (0.5)
Milford 683 (1.4)
Millbury 227 (2.5)
Millville 25 (2.4)
New Braintree <5 (0)
North Brookfield 22 (1.6)
Northborough 229 (0.5)
Northbridge 328 (2.1)
Oakham 10 (1.5)
Oxford 86 (0.7)
Paxton 35 1.(4)
Petersham 8 (0)
Phillipston 16 (0)
Princeton 8 (0)
Royalston <5 (0)
Rutland 56 (0.3)
Shrewsbury 360 (1)
Soutborough 43 (0)
Southbridge 194 (1.5)
Spencer 72 (2.4)
Sterlinng 124 (0.2)
Sturbridge 49 (1.2)
Sutton 59 (2.1)
Templeton 124 (0)
Upton 28 (0.9)
Uxbridge 84 (0.8)
Warren 26 (0)
Webster 278 (1.2)
West Boylston 61 (1.5)
West Brookfield 25 (0)
Westborough 357 (1.5)
Westminster 34 (0)
Winchendon 91 (0.9)
WORCESTER 5,623 (2)
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