BREAKING: 5 New Cases of Coronavirus in MA, Total Jumps from 1 to 8 in a Week
Saturday, March 07, 2020
Five new presumptive positive cases of coronavirus identified in MA.
This brings the total number of confirmed or presumptive positive cases in Massachusetts to eight.
According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, all five new cases are tied to an employee meeting of a multi-national company with headquarters in Massachusetts that took place in late February.
The cases include two women and one man from Suffolk County, all in their 40s; and two individuals form Norfolk County, one woman in her 30s and one man in his 40s. All five individuals are at their homes.
Testing for the coronavirus in Massachusetts started on Friday, February 28 at the State Public Health Laboratory.
Coronavirus in MA
Including the cases announced on Friday, Massachusetts has eight total cases: one confirmed case and seven presumptive positive cases.
The one confirmed case is a Suffolk County man in his 20s who returned from travel to Wuhan, China, and is recovering at home.
There are seven presumptive cases: The five cases announced today, along with two previously-reported presumptive positive cases.
Those previously reported cases are a Norfolk County woman in her 20s who recently returned from an organized trip in northern Italy, and a Middlesex County woman in her 60s whose recent international travels included northern Italy.
All of these cases are recovering at home.
According to the Department of Health, as of Wednesday, 719 people have been subject to self-quarantine in Massachusetts because of COVID-19. Of those, 470 people have completed monitoring and are no longer quarantined, while 249 are currently quarantined.
This information is updated online each Wednesday.
Coronavirus Around the Globe
According to the CDC, as of Friday, there have been 164 U.S. cases of COVID-19 confirmed. Globally, more than 95,000 cases have been confirmed.
There has been a total of 11 deaths in the U.S.
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