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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Saturday announced an additional 109 new cases of coronavirus and 20 deaths.
This weekend, DPH is updating its electronic laboratory reporting system to the Amazon Web Services cloud, which will increase data collection capacity. That means that Saturday’s coronavirus statistics could reflect lower numbers of individual tests, total tests, new cases and deaths, DPH said.
Saturday’s case counts and other data is based on information reported to DPH from 8:30 a.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Friday, the department said.
So far during the pandemic, at least 115,850 Massachusetts residents have tested positive for coronavirus and the state has seen 8,690 deaths related to the illness, according to DPH data.
As of Saturday, 315 people are hospitalized with coronavirus, 50 of whom are in the intensive care unit. Hospitalization numbers are not impacted by the data upgrade, DPH said.
The state’s seven-day weighted average of positive molecular tests stands at 1.1%. Earlier this week, the rate was 1.4%, per DPH data.
The department does not plan to update coronavirus statistics on Sunday. On Monday, a normal flow of data is expected to resume and all laboratory results from over the weekend are planned to be published and assigned to respective test dates, DPH said.
As of Saturday, here is the number of cases in each Massachusetts county:
Barnstable County: 1,583
Berkshire County: 633
Bristol County: 8,919
Dukes County: 51
Essex County: 17,574
Franklin County: 380
Hampden County: 7,521
Hampshire County: 1,116
Middlesex County: 24,698
Nantucket County: 35
Norfolk County: 9,342
Plymouth County: 8,915
Suffolk County: 21,588
Worcester County: 13,196
Unknown location: 299
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