MA Releases Latest Coronavirus Info For Every Town: Patch PM
MASSACHUSETTS —It's Wednesday, June 24. Here's what Patch has been covering in Massachusetts today.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health released its weekly update for coronavirus case and testing data for all 351 Massachusetts cities and towns. Patch has updated its spreadsheet and interactive map so you can find the latest COVID-19 information for your town.
How to use this map: Zoom in on the map below and click on a pin to see that town's coronavirus case data. You can also view the town-by-town coronavirus data in the spreadsheet we used to create this map.
Statewide, there were 172 new cases of the coronavirus confirmed on Wednesday, bringing the state total to 107,611 since the first Massachusetts case was reported on Feb. 1. There were also 48 newly reported deaths, bring the death toll to 7,938 since the first reported coronavirus death in Massachusetts on March 20.
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This article originally appeared on the Boston Patch
