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FRAMINGHAM – The City of Framingham today, September 1, announced 63 new COVID-19 cases since last week.
Last week, the City reported 45 new cases. And two weeks ago 77 news cases.
Massachusetts reported 1,796 new cases, 11 deaths, and a 2.57 percent positivity COVID rate today, September 1.
The City of Framingham said it now has 161 active cases up from 149 active cases last week.
In late May, the City said it had more than 1,500 active cases, before SOURCE questioned the City’s numbers.
At the beginning of July, the City reported just 3 new cases.
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The current deputy Health Director has said the increase in new cases is due to the Delta variant of the coronavirus.
Framingham has had a total of 8,707 coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. Framingham has about 74,500 residents. (Note; the official census has the City at less than 72,500 residents). That means more than 12% of the City has been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the pandemic began in March 2020.
The City now has 91 individuals in quarantine, up from 87.
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The City of Framingham is now reporting 8,295 individuals have recovered from the coronavirus.
Framingham Deputy Health Director Alex DePalo told SOURCE “cases are moved into a Recovered status when the individual has completed isolation and is not experiencing any COVID symptoms (including fever without a fever-reducing medication). Isolation is a minimum of 10 days however it can be longer if symptoms persist or if the individual becomes severely ill. It is a case by case determination.”
Since the pandemic, began 251 individuals have died from COVID-19 in the City of Framingham.
As of April 19, the general public, age 16 and older became eligible for the vaccine. The FDA & the CDC have approved Pfizer’s vaccine for individuals age 12 and older.
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