BOSTON (WHDH) - BOSTON (WHDH) – The Department of Public Health announced 2,501 newly confirmed coronavirus cases on Sunday.
A total of 217,163 cases have been reported so far in Massachusetts with an estimated 43,709 active cases with a daily test positivity rate of 3.8 percent.
Forty-four new deaths were confirmed, elevating the confirmed virus-related death toll to 10,485 statewide.
One thousand eighty-one people are currently hospitalized and 238 are currently receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Unit. The average age of hospitalized persons is 65.
The virus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person, typically between people who are in close contact with one another and via respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
From November 1 through November 14, 6,186 people between the ages of 20-29 have tested positive. The highest rate of positives per age group.
Ages 0-19 came in next with 5,015, followed by 30-39 year-olds at 4,841. The lowest reported age group was those over 80 with just 880 confirmed cases in that two-week period.
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