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337 new COVID-19 cases, 18 additional deaths reported in Massachusetts Updated: 5:55 PM EDT May 14, 2021 The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported an additional 337 confirmed COVID-19 cases Friday, bringing the statewide total to 655,687 since the start of the pandemic.State health officials also added 18 confirmed COVID-19-related deaths to the state’s total, …

Massachusetts now has its first confirmed case of the COVID-19 variant, according to state health officials.The state’s Department of Public Health announced Sunday that the first case of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 has been detected in the Bay State.This case involves the same variant that was initially discovered in the United Kingdom, state health officials …

Massachusetts surpassed 400,000 confirmed coronavirus cases on Friday as it recorded another single-day record with 7,635 confirmed cases. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health also reported 74 new confirmed coronavirus deaths. There have now been a total of 12,708 deaths and 400,823 cases, according to DPH. The state had last broken the single-day coronavirus record …

Massachusetts reports highest-ever number of new COVID-19 cases after technological issue 53 additional COVID-19-related deaths also reported Updated: 6:46 PM EST Nov 25, 2020 The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported an additional 3,224 confirmed COVID-19 cases Wednesday, bringing the statewide total to 207,284. This marks the highest number of new confirmed cases that state …

Massachusetts reported more than 3,000 new confirmed coronavirus cases Wednesday, with the Massachusetts Department of Health citing a “technological issue” that extended the window beyond one full day. The 3,224 new confirmed cases and 53 new deaths reflected case counts from up to a 30-hour period, DPH said on their website. There have now been …

A new COVID-19 case was reported out of the Guam Regional Medical City on Tuesday. GRMC has been designated as the non-COVID hospital on the island. The Joint Information confirms this latest case now brings the total positive count for Guam to 152. That includes five deaths and 124 recoveries. Twenty-three patients still have COVID-19. …

Los Angeles County health officials Wednesday confirmed five new cases of measles and warned of possible exposure at a series of locations over the past week. According to the county Department of Public Health, the new patients are four county residents who were “exposed to an unimmunized, international visitor who was infectious with measles while …

A fourth human case of the Eastern equine encephalitis virus was confirmed by laboratory testing, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said Sunday.Officials said a woman over the age of 50 from southern Bristol County was infected with the EEE virus.In a Facebook post, the Teamsters Local 59 union said Laurie Sylvia, the wife of …