City of Framingham Announces 44 New COVID Cases; Issues 27 Vaccines in Past Week

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FRAMINGHAM – The City of Framingham today, October 14, announced 44 new COVID-19 cases since last week.

Last week, the City reported 30 new cases, and 39 new cases the week before.

The City of Framingham said it now has 186 active cases up from 160 active cases last week.

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The Health Director told the Framingham Board of Health last month, the increase in new cases is due to the Delta variant of the coronavirus.

Framingham has had a total of 8,988 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 did not announce how many individuals in quarantine.

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The City of Framingham is now reporting 8,515 individuals have recovered from the coronavirus.

Framingham 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.”

Today, October 14 the City of Framingham said “The Framingham COVID-19 Team is working on updating the State’s case information in the system. This will impact the number of recovered cases (increase likely) and active cases (decrease likely).”

Since the pandemic, began 252 individuals have died from COVID-19 in the City of Framingham. The latest death was an individual who died in spring 2020 outside of 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.

The City of Framingham announced it has administered 6,133 vaccines (Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson and Johnson) under the Equity Initiative, that is an increase of 27 vaccines in the last 7 days.

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