Cape's COVID rate is higher than state average, with 112 new cases, 6 deaths
Published Feb. 4, 2022
The state Department of Public Health said in its weekly municipal report Thursday that Barnstable County had 2,658 new cases of COVID-19 in the past two weeks.
In its daily report Thursday, the DPH said there were 4,829 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Massachusetts, including 127 on Cape Cod.
So far there have been 1,498,053 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Massachusetts, including 33,206 in Barnstable County.
State public health officials, who based the daily Thursday report on Wednesday’s figures, said there were also 607 new probable cases of coronavirus in Massachusetts, for a total of 127,651 since the pandemic began.
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Deaths of people with coronavirus
They said in the daily report that Massachusetts saw 59 new deaths of people with confirmed cases of coronavirus Wednesday, for a total of 21,692 since the pandemic began.
In addition, two people in Massachusetts with probable cases of COVID- 19 died, for a total of 624.
Health officials say deaths lag a few weeks behind case counts.
The daily report included six new and probable confirmed deaths due to COVID-19 in Barnstable County. So far 640 people with COVID-19 on Cape Cod have died.
Hospitalizations
State public health officials said that, as of Wednesday, 1,661 people in Massachusetts were hospitalized for coronavirus.
They said Cape Cod Hospital had 34 patients with coronavirus, including two in intensive care, while Falmouth Hospital had 15, including three in the ICU.
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and Nantucket Cottage Hospital both had two patients with coronavirus.
The 14-day percent positivity rate for COVID-19 is 15.31% for Barnstable County, and 10.06% for the state.
The state’s municipal report on new cases ; total cases; and testing positivity rates over the past two weeks for towns on Cape Cod follows: Barnstable (688; 8,853; 18.34%); Bourne (239; 3,309; 15.31%); Brewster (119; 1,281; 11.73%); Chatham (67; 720; 17.35%); Dennis (174; 2,038; 15.9%); Eastham (16; 414; 6.23%); Falmouth (271; 3,912; 12.15%); Harwich (162; 1,829; 16.29%); Mashpee (229; 2,231; 16.51%); Orleans (47; 656; 12.02%); Provincetown (18; 441; 8.07%); Sandwich (246; 3,145; 14.81%); Truro (6; 170; 7.5%); Wellfleet (9; 243; 7.43%); and Yarmouth (367; 3,964; 16.72%).
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