Health Care

A COVID-19 testing site opened in the parking lot of the Walmart at 25 Tobias Boland Way in Worcester, the company announced in a Thursday press release.

Worcester County recorded 66 new coronavirus cases and 22 new deaths Thursday, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Late April was the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, when cases hit their peak across Massachusetts. Since then, the state as a whole has seen a sharper and more consistent drop in cases in the past month than Worcester County and especially the city of Worcester

Worcester County recorded 90 new coronavirus cases and 16 new fatalities on Wednesday, as the U.S. passed the grim milestone of 100,000 coronavirus-related deaths.

A total of 27 people have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Worcester Sam's Club fulfillment center at 1 Tobias Boland Way, the city confirmed in a press release on Wednesday.

Nursing homes have played an unwelcome central role in the coronavirus pandemic, with more than half of the outbreak's deaths in Massachusetts taking place at a long-term care facility.

Worcester County on Tuesday had the lowest increase in new coronavirus cases since the end of March with 57 new cases, while Massachusetts also saw significantly low increases, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Hospitals and other healthcare centers in Central Massachusetts have received nearly $139 million in coronavirus-related funding to help during what some health leaders have said is a budgetary crisis as well as a health one.

For some, Memorial Day weekend was a time to venture outside or gather with some normalcy after months of trying to contain the coronavirus pandemic. For Worcester County though, new coronavirus numbers showed stubbornly high rates, particularly for hospitalizations.

Marlborough pharmaceutical firm Sunovion said Thursday it has received federal approval for the first drug for Parkinson's disease which dissolves under the tongue.