May 20, 2020
Worcester County surpasses 600 coronavirus deaths Wednesday, nears 10,000 cases
Photo | Grant Welker
MetroWest Medical Center's Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick
Worcester County surpassed 600 coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday, while Massachusetts as a whole surpassed 6,000.
The county had 28 newly reported deaths Wednesday, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, bringing the tally so far to 625. Worcester County's 9,780 coronavirus cases through Wednesday are the state's fourth highest of 14 counties. Middlesex County has the most at 19,708, followed by Suffolk and Essex counties.
Across Massachusetts, another 1,045 cases were reported, bringing the state's total to 88,970. Another 128 recorded deaths brought the toll so far to 6,066.
The city of Worcester had 105 new cases Wednesday, bringing the city's total to 3,661.
The DCU Center in Worcester, which had been used as a field hospital for less-severe coronavirus patients, discharged its last patients Wednesday. The remaining patients — six as of Tuesday — were being moved to hospitals or discharged.
Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Worcester, which is being used to treat coronavirus patients, had 71 cases Wednesday. It has treated 169 cases so far, according to the city.
Central Massachusetts hospitals continue to see a high but slowly falling number of inpatient and intensive care patients for the virus.
UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester had 147 inpatient cases, with 54 in intensive care, according to the Department of Public Health. Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester had 70 cases with 12 in the ICU, and MetroWest Medical Center had 64 cases with 10 in the ICU between its Framingham and Natick campuses.
The state also reported 13,013 new tests for suspected coronavirus patients so far. In total, 489,953 tests have been conducted in Massachusetts.
Cases worldwide were nearing 5 million on Wednesday afternoon with more than 325,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. In the United States, cases stand at more than 1.5 million with nearly 93,000 deaths.
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