New Bedford Guide Your Guide to New Bedford and South Coast, MA
On April 7, the Massachusetts Public Health Department reported that the state added 1,365 more positive cases of COVID-19 bringing to total to 15,202. This is a slight increase over Monday’s 1,337 reported cases. 96 new deaths were reported in the past three days bringing the total deaths in Massachusetts to 356.
As of 4 pm today, 81,344 people in Massachusetts have been tested for COVID-19 – 4,915 in the past 24 hours.
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. Full details here.
At 4:30 pm today, Fall River reported 70 cases of COVID-19, up from 66 on Monday. Full details here.
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.
The Boston Police Department and FBI are warning people of fraudulent emails/phone calls from scammers looking to hijack COVID-19 stimulus checks. Full details here.
As of April 6, the total amount of cases in The United States is 378,289 with 11,830 total deaths.
