Boston-area’s COVID cases and the region’s wastewater continues to fall, as state health officials this week also reported a drop in new virus cases and hospitalizations.
In the city, the number of new COVID cases has decreased 20% over the past week. The seven-day average of new virus cases is now 2.4 cases per 100,000.
Both of the wastewater counts for the south-of-Boston and north-of-Boston regions are plunging. The south-of-Boston seven-day average is now 219 RNA copies per milliliter, which is down from 463 copies last month. The north-of-Boston average is now 247 copies, a drop from 450 copies.
Data from the Boston Public Health Commission’s wastewater surveillance program shows that the number of COVID particles in the wastewater did go up over the past week, but the data remains 38% down over the last two weeks.
On Thursday, the state Department of Public Health reported 1,569 virus cases over the last week. The daily average of 224 COVID cases from the last week was a 15% decrease from the daily rate of 264 virus infections during the previous week.
The Bay State’s positive test average ticked down last week. The seven-day positive test rate is now 3.48%, a decline from 3.70% last week.
The state Department of Public Health on Thursday also reported that 287 total patients are hospitalized with COVID, which is a dip of 23 patients from this time last week.
The state reported 17 new COVID deaths over the past week, bringing the state’s total to 24,573 recorded deaths since the start of the pandemic. The daily average of deaths is now two, which had been up in recent months.
State health officials recently updated how COVID deaths are counted, limiting COVID-associated deaths to those with COVID listed on the death certificate.
More than 2 million people in the state have received a booster dose since the bivalent vaccine was offered last September.
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