BOSTON (WHDH) – The Department of Public Health reported 4,178 newly confirmed coronavirus cases on Tuesday.
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A total of 379,633 cases have been reported so far in Massachusetts with an estimated 79,406 active cases and a seven-day average positivity rate of 8.57 percent.
A total of 63 new deaths were confirmed, elevating the confirmed virus-related death toll to 12,464 statewide.
Two thousand, four hundred and twenty-eight people are currently hospitalized and 425 are currently receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Unit.
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.
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From Dec. 13 through Dec. 26, 9,907 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 9,814, followed by 30-39 year-olds at 8,822. The lowest reported age group was those over 80 with just 2,441 confirmed cases in that two-week period.
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