City of Framingham Announces 123 New COVID Cases

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FRAMINGHAM – The City of Framingham today, November 24, announced 123 new COVID-19 cases since last week.

Last week, the City reported 97 new cases.

The City of Framingham said it now has 170 active cases, up from 133 last week.

Framingham has had a total of 9,494 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 13% of the City has been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the pandemic began in March 2020.

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The City did not announce how many individuals in quarantine.

The City of Framingham is now reporting 9,059 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.”

Since the pandemic, began 253 individuals have died from COVID-19 in the City of Framingham.

The City’s equity vaccine initiative has vaccinated 6,445 in 2021. No vaccine equity update was provide this week. City said next update on December 1.

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