New Bedford Guide Your Guide to New Bedford and South Coast, MA
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 13837. 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.
As of 4 pm today, 76,429 people in Massachusetts have been tested for COVID-19 – 4,492 in the past 24 hours.
New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell’s office reported Monday morning that New Bedford has a total of 65 positive cases of COVID-19, up from the 54 cases they reported on Saturday and up from 49 on Friday. The City did not report data on Sunday. Full details here.
At 4:30 pm today, Fall River reported 66 cases of COVID-19. 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.
Earlier this week, Governor Baker detailed the latest model projections that estimate the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Massachusetts could range from 47,000 to 172,000 (or 0.7% to 2.5% of the total population of Massachusetts). The models show hospitalizations would potentially peak between April 10-20. Full details here.
As of April 6, the total amount of cases in The United States is 352,546 with 10,389 total deaths.
