Worcester County, state see relative slowdown in cases on Monday
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A sign warning out-of-state passerby to self-quarantine greets motorists on I-495.
New reported coronavirus cases Monday showed a relative slowdown in Worcester County and statewide, according to new numbers from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Worcester County had two new reported deaths Monday, now totaling 51, with 96 new total cases bringing the county to 2,128. Across the state, 1,392 cases brought the Massachusetts total to 26,867.
Those day-over-day increases were 5% for both the county and state.
Massachusetts also had 88 new deaths for a total of 844.
The city of Worcester reported 715 total cases, a one-day increase of 29, or 4%. Saint Vincent Hospital and UMass Memorial Health Care had 191 total positive inpatient cases and 65 total intensive-care patients as of Monday. A total of 101 of their employees have tested positive for the virus.
Monday's totals marked the lowest one-day increases in new cases since April 7 for Worcester County, the city of Worcester and the state. But the Department of Public Health advised against taking too much from any one day's result, citing a variability in cases processed by labs. Massachusetts reported its largest-ever single-day total just one day prior, and Worcester County three days ago.
The two new Worcester County deaths reported Monday were a man in his 60s with pre-existing conditions and a woman in her 90s with unknown pre-existing conditions.
The state also reported 5,319 new tests conducted for a total of 122,049.
Across the United States, cases have passed 572,000, by far the largest of any country and accounting for 30% of the world's total, according to Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. More than 23,000 American deaths have been reported, which is also the most in the world. The international count on Monday afternoon stood at more than 1.9 million cases and more than 118,000 deaths.
The state's estimated peak for cases has been slowly pushed back later into April, according to the University of Washignton's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The institute now expects the state's peak period for use of health resources including beds and ventilators to be around April 28, and for the peak number of deaths to take place around April 29.
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