Massachusetts COVID-19 Dashboard: 39 new deaths, 2,274 new cases

Posted: Mar 25, 2021 / 06:55 PM EDT

Updated: Mar 26, 2021 / 08:20 AM EDT

BOSTON (WWLP) – State public health officials reported 39 newly confirmed deaths and 2,274 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts.

According to the DPH report, Chicopee, Southwick, Lee, Palmer, and Monson are all in the “red zone.” This means those areas have seen 25 or more COVID-19 Cases in the last 14 days.

Total COVID-19 Cases by Age Group:

0-19 years: 5,316
20-29 years: 4,137
30-39 years: 3,272
40-49 years: 2,807
50-59 years: 2,487
60-69 years: 2,769
70-79 years: 627
80+ years: 281

Testing:

According to the Department of Public Health, 111,753 new tests were performed with an overall of 18,312,783 molecular tests administered. Of those, 5,127,290 tests were first time tests and 13,185,493 were repeat tests.

Antigen Tests: A total of 2,532 new individuals have tested positive with 631,565 total tests reported.

The current turn around time for a molecular test is 1.27 days. The 7-day average of percent positivity is 2.22%.

Hospitalizations:

There are 631 patients are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 with 137 patients that are in intensive care units and 87 patients intubated. The average age of patients currently hospitalized is 63-years-old.

As of Thursday, 86.2% of medical/surgical beds are occupied and 75% of ICU beds are occupied. There are currently 0 beds occupied through alternate medical sites.

In western Massachusetts, there are a total of 1,175 medical/surgical beds with 978 that are occupied. The ICU units have a total of 153 beds and 91 of them are occupied.

Confirmed COVID-19 Cases:

New Cases: 2,274
Total Cases: 586,298
Estimated Active Cases: 28,078
New Deaths: 39
Total Deaths: 16,671

Probable COVID-19 Cases

New Cases: 136
Total Cases: 35,928
New Deaths: 1
Total Deaths: 339

Hampden County:

New Confirmed Cases: 198
Total Confirmed Cases: 44,806
New Deaths: 6
Total Confirmed and Probable Deaths: 1,433

Hampshire County:

New Confirmed Cases: 53
Total Confirmed Cases: 8,158
New Deaths: 0
Total Confirmed and Probable Deaths: 279

Franklin County:

New Confirmed Cases: 7
Total Confirmed Cases: 2,143
New Deaths: 0
Total Confirmed and Probable Deaths: 105

Berkshire County:

New Confirmed Cases: 43
Total Confirmed Cases: 5,297
New Deaths: 2
Total Confirmed and Probable Deaths: 271

MassDPH COVID-19 Dashboard

Higher Education:

There are 598 new cases in the last week with a total of 14,415 confirmed COVID-19 cases in higher education institutions. In the last week there were 204,188 new tests reported with a total of 5,857,752 tests performed.