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New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell’s office reported Tuesday morning that New Bedford has a total of 71 positive cases of COVID-19, up from the 65 cases they reported on Saturday and up from 54 on Friday. The City did not report data on Sunday.
The City of New Bedford is slated to receive $1,624,151 in funding through the CDB20-COVID Recovery Grant Fund and $805,424 in funding though the ESG20-COVID Recovery Grant, from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Full details here.
On April 6, the Massachusetts Public Health Department reported that the state added 1,337 more positive cases of COVID-19 bringing to total to 13,837. This is a significant increase over Sunday’s 764 reported cases and very close to Saturday’s 1,334 new cases. There appears to be a trend of low testing on Sundays. 29 new deaths were reported bringing the total deaths in Massachusetts to 260. Full details here.
According to Fall River Mayor Paul Coogan, Fall River now has 66 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Monday.
Bristol County is now up to 722 confirmed cases as of 4 pm on Monday, up from 659 on Saturday.
Brockton has seven times the amount of positive COVID-19 cases as comparably sized cities in Massachusetts like New Bedford and Fall River and 147 more cases than Worcester, which has almost 100,000 more people. Full details here.
