Massachusetts health officials on Monday announced four more coronavirus deaths, bringing the statewide death count to 8,611 since the pandemic began.
Officials also confirmed 213 cases of COVID-19, for a total now of at least 114,611 cases. That is based on 14,946 new molecular tests reported on Monday, according to the Department of Public Health.
There are currently 367 people hospitalized with the virus, including 59 people in intensive care.
As of Monday, there are at least 5,382,125 cases of COVID-19 in the United States and nearly 170,000 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While Massachusetts saw a slight increase in cases earlier this month, it appears new infections are starting to level off. Massachusetts is one of about two dozen states where infection levels have remained the same in recent days, according to the New York Times.
Monday’s statistics come as states and school districts continue to grapple with how the coming school year should behave, and several after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing that although COVID-19 affects adults in much higher numbers than children, children remain at risk for serious illness.
“During March 21 – July 25, weekly hospital admissions have been steadily increasing among children,” the CDC said.
Latino children were eight times as likely as white children in the hospital, while Black children were five times as likely as white children, the CDC found. Roughly two white children per 100,000 were hospitalized for COVID-related diseases, compared with 16.4 Latinos and 10.5 per Black children per 100,000, the CDC said.
Gov. Charlie Baker began releasing ‘enhanced’ city-level data last week to see specific cases in every state in the state.
The new limits for large collections of outbuildings were also put into effect last week. All outdoor meetings will be limited to 50 people, instead of 100. The limit on indoor meetings will remain at 25 people.
State health officials also said last week that they had completed contact tracking for 92% of coronavirus cases identified by local health departments.
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