Massachusetts health officials on Wednesday reported 32 new coronavirus deaths and 510 new cases, while the daily positive test rate continued to hover around 3%.
The 32 new coronavirus deaths and one probable coronavirus death bring the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 9,456, the state Department of Public Health announced. The three-day average of coronavirus daily deaths has dropped from 161 at the start of May to 15 now.
The state has logged 132,116 cases of the highly contagious disease, an increase of 510 confirmed cases and 22 probable cases since Tuesday. Of the 132,116 total cases, at least 113,768 people have recovered.
The daily percent of tested individuals who are positive continued to hover around 3%. That figure at the start of September was between 1%-2%, but the rate was 3.7% on Monday and 2.8% on Tuesday — the most recent day of available data. Five out of seven days have been above 3%.
Meanwhile, the seven-day weighted average of the Bay State’s positive test rate held steady at 1.0% on Wednesday.
Coronavirus hospitalizations on Wednesday went down by six patients, bringing the state’s COVID-19 hospitalization total to 438.
There are 89 patients in the ICU, and 29 patients are currently intubated.
The highest peak of Massachusetts’ coronavirus hospitalizations was 3,965 on April 21. The three-day average of the number of coronavirus hospitalizations has increased from 308 two weeks ago to 433 now.
An additional 14,404 tests have brought the state’s total to more than 4 million tests.
The state reported 24,893 residents and health care workers at long-term care facilities have now contracted the virus, with 384 facilities reporting at least one case of COVID-19.
Of the state’s 9,456 total coronavirus deaths, 6,073 are connected to long-term care facilities.
More than 206,000 Americans have died. The country’s death toll is the highest in the world, which eclipsed 1 million deaths this week.
The U.S. has recorded more than 7.2 million coronavirus cases — also the most in the world. More than 2.8 million people have recovered.
