BOSTON (WHDH) - Despite a spike in COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker says the state is better equipped to handle the virus than it was when it first emerged in the spring.
Wednesday marked the fifth straight day health officials reported more than 1,000 new cases in the Bay State.
The Department of Public Health reported 1,137 newly confirmed cases with a test positivity rate of 6.1 percent
Baker said that the state is better prepared to handle these cases than it was when the virus first broke out.
“The biggest difference is better data, better information, much more testing, and tracing capacity, and a healthcare system that is far more knowledgeable about dealing with this than they were then,” he explained.
A total of 150,498 cases have been reported so far in Massachusetts, with 9,700 confirmed virus-related deaths.
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