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New coronavirus cases increased in the week ending Thursday for the fourth straight week across Massachusetts and for the second straight week in Worcester County.
The city of Worcester reported 311 new cases, keeping its rate of new cases roughly flat for the past month and a half.
New totals reported by the city and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health come the same week that U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky used the word "doom" to describe what she saw as a coming next wave of cases nationally. Vaccinations against COVID-19 have been rising, but so have numbers of virus variants spreading more easily. States have also loosened business capacity restrictions, including Massachusetts.
Massachusetts had 14,334 new cases in the past week through Thursday, its fourth straight week of increases. The state's cases now total 600,632 since the pandemic began. The state's death toll also rose in the past week by 205 to reach 16,876.
Worcester County had 1,339 new cases, the second week in a row its total rose, according to the DPH. Worcester County now has 70,617 cases.
Worcester County had 22 newly reported deaths in the past week, bringing its total to 2,155.
City officials in Worcester reported 311 new weekly cases, roughly in line with numbers Worcester's had since mid-February. The city has had 22,011 cases reported since the pandemic began.
Worcester's two health care systems, UMass Memorial Health Care and Saint Vincent Hospital, have a combined 48 inpatient coronavirus cases as of Thursday, according to the city. That's a drop of three from the previous week. They have 14 total intensive-care coronavirus patients, a count that also fell by three.
State, Worcester County and City of Worcester cases and deaths are weekly as of each Thursday. State and Worcester County numbers were previously as of each Wednesday until late October. Worcester County's case total included confirmed and suspected cases through Aug. 12, after which it includes only confirmed cases. Worcester County's death total was revised downward by four on June 30, and is an estimate based on state-reported totals through early August, and estimated numbers from that point forward based on most recent two-week reporting. The City of Worcester retroactively added cases on June 4. State and county data is according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Worcester data is according to the City of Worcester. Weekly testing periods varied between six- and eight-day ranges for some weeks, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.
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