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On April 11, the Massachusetts Public Health Department reported that the state added 1,886 more positive cases of COVID-19 bringing to total to 22,860. This is a decrease from Friday’s 2,033 reported cases. 87 new COVID-19 related deaths were reported since yesterday bringing the total deaths in Massachusetts to 686.
As of 4 pm today, 108,776 people in Massachusetts have been tested for COVID-19 – 6,404 in the past 24 hours compared to the previous day’s total of 7,447.
New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell’s office reported 136 positive cases of COVID-19 Saturday morning, up from the 119 cases they reported on Friday and up from 102 on Thursday. Mayor Mitchell reported New Bedford’s third COVID-19 related death on Friday.
After Fall River set a high in COVID-19 cases in one day, the city saw 6 more cases. According to Mayor Coogan, there are 97 confirmed cases in Fall River on Friday and of those, 26 have recovered and 71 remain active. Full details here.
Gov. Charlie Baker hopes lawmakers can resolve differences and send him a viable bill pausing all eviction and foreclosure proceedings statewide by next week, he said Saturday while touting aid that will flow to undocumented immigrants who are ineligible for unemployment benefits. Full details here.
As of April 11, the total amount of cases in The United States is 514,415 with 19,882 total deaths.
