Framingham Surpasses 6,200 COVID Cases; City has 1,245 Active Cases

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FRAMINGHAM – The City of Framingham announced 67 new COVID-19 cases since Wednesday, January 27.

Since the pandemic, there have been 203 deaths.

Framingham has had a total of 6,205 coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. Framingham has about 75,000 residents.

That means just about 8 percent of the City has been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

The good news is 4,757 individuals have recovered.

Active cases in the City of Framingham increased from 1,219 to 1,245.

Individuals in quarantine is at 582

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts operates a free COVID testing site opened at Framingham State University’s parking lot on Franklin Street. It is drive-thru and by appointment only, through the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Project Beacon.

It is closed today, January 29, due to the weather.

The Framingham residents-only free COVID testing site opened at SMOC HQ at 7 Bishop Street ended in 2020.

No new walk-up testing site has been announced for 2021.

But SOURCE has learned the City and state are looking at one of the City of Framingham’s polling places as a potential new walk-up COVID-19 testing site.

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