Massachusetts well being officers reported 1,727 new COVID-19 circumstances and 10 new deaths on Friday.
In whole, there have been 1,757,405 circumstances and 19,667 deaths for the reason that begin of the coronavirus pandemic.
The state reported 481 individuals hospitalized for COVID-19 as of Friday’s knowledge launch, with 146 being main circumstances. Of the entire hospitalizations, 38 are in intensive care and 9 are intubated.
Massachusetts’ COVID metrics, tracked on the Division of Public Well being’s interactive coronavirus dashboard, have trended again down after a spring bump.
Most of Massachusetts’ 14 is now thought-about low danger for COVID-19, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The newest peak was attributed to subvariants of omicron — first, it was the “stealth” omicron variant BA.2, and extra just lately the BA.2. 12.1 subvariant. Different variants have since been recognized in New England as nicely.
The state’s seven-day common positivity was at 5.78% Friday, in comparison with 5.53% on Thursday.
This spring bump was nicely beneath the forms of case counts and hospitalizations seen at top of the omicron surge in January, when common day by day case counts reached over 28,000 and hospitalizations peaked at round 3,300.
COVID ranges in wastewater, as reported by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s tracking system have additionally began to sign declines. The degrees of virus seen within the wastewater additionally stay nowhere close to the place they have been throughout the peak of the omicron surge.
Specialists have additionally mentioned that case rely reporting turned a much less correct indicator throughout the omicron surge, given the difficulties in getting examined. Now, widespread use of fast exams signifies that some outcomes go unreported.
Greater than 14.9 million vaccine doses have now been administered in Massachusetts.
Well being officers on Friday reported {that a} whole of 5,404,072 Massachusetts residents have been totally vaccinated.
