BOSTON (WHDH) - The Department of Public Health reported 5,655 newly confirmed coronavirus cases on Thursday.
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A total of 328,307 cases have been reported so far in Massachusetts with an estimated 80,800 active cases and a seven-day average positivity rate of 5.7 percent.
Seventy-six new deaths were confirmed, elevating the confirmed virus-related death toll to 11,963 statewide.
Two thousand, and ninety-five people are currently hospitalized and 409 are currently receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Unit. The average age of hospitalized persons is 69.
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. 12 through Dec. 19, 11,427 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 10,797, followed by 30-39 year-olds at 9,750. The lowest reported age group was those over 80 with just 2,446 confirmed cases in that two-week period.
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