The Department of Public Health on Wednesday released the latest data from the coronavirus community.
The table shows the number of cases for each community, the total number of test people, the number of tests, and the rate of positive test results over the past two weeks for each and every city in Massachusetts.
There are now 11 communities in Massachusetts with an infection rate of more than 8 cases per 100,000 residents, making officials consider “high-risk” places. Those communities include Lynn, Chelsea, Revere, Everett, Saugus, Holyoke, Lawrence, Fall River, Salem, Granby and Hull.
Compared to the previous two-week period, 212 communities saw improvement as no change in their average daily business numbers, officials said.
State health officials announced another 18 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, bringing the statewide death count to 8,547.
Officials also confirmed another 229 cases of COVID-19, for a total of at least 113,198. That is based on 15,693 new molecular tests reported on Wednesday. 2,518 new antigen tests were also reported.
There are currently 422 people hospitalized with the virus, including 64 patients in intensive care.
Officials on Tuesday released a color-coded map of the state indicating where the infection rates are highest. Red represents places where there are more than eight cases per 100,000 people, which means residents are at high risk; yellow represents between four and eight cases, as a moderate level of risk; green represents less than four cases per 100,000 inhabitants; and white represents less than five total cases reported over the past 14 days.
Gov. Charlie Baker said his administration has reached out to community leaders in harder-hit communities to come up with strategies to reduce infections. Baker said 318 communities in Massachusetts are at or below national benchmarks for containing the virus, but added that there is still work to be done.
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