Massachusetts COVID report: 54 new deaths, 27,612 new cases

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Posted: Jan 6, 2022 / 12:50 PM EST / Updated: Jan 6, 2022 / 12:53 PM EST

BOSTON (WWLP) – State public health officials reported 54 new confirmed deaths and 27,612 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts.

Total COVID cases by age

0-4 years: 8,042
5-9 years: 7,666
10-14 years: 8,662
15-19 years: 11,249
20-29 years: 33,338
30-39 years: 27,456
40-49 years: 19,323
50-59 years: 16,867
60-69 years: 9,387
70-79 years: 3,837
80+ years: 2,066

Testing

According to the Department of Public Health, 138,316 new tests were performed with an overall of 36,631,691 molecular tests administered.

Antigen Tests: A total of 31,430 new individuals have tested positive with 3,356,542 total tests reported.

The 7-day average of percent positivity is 22.06%

Hospitalizations

There are 2,426 patients are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 with 427 patients that are in intensive care units, 265 patients intubated and 973 patients that are reportedly fully vaccinated.

Confirmed COVID cases

New Cases: 27,612
Total Cases: 1,135,380
New Deaths: 54
Total Deaths: 20,008

Probable COVID cases

New Cases: 3,198
Total Cases: 87,974
New Deaths: 0
Total Deaths: 456

Vaccinations

Massachusetts residents fully vaccinated: 5,102,405
- 5,217 increase from yesterday
Booster doses administered: 2,190,923
- 28,401 increase from yesterday

COVID cases in fully vaccinated individuals

3.5% of all fully vaccinated individuals in Massachusetts have tested positive for COVID-19.
0.8% of fully vaccinated individuals have been hospitalized.
0.2% of fully vaccinated individuals have died from COVID-19.

Berkshire County

New Confirmed Cases: 292
Total Confirmed Cases: 14,365
New Deaths: 2
Total Confirmed and Probable Deaths: 349

Hampden County

New Confirmed Cases: 2,472
Total Confirmed Cases: 94,770
New Deaths: 7
Total Confirmed and Probable Deaths: 1,774

Hampshire County

New Confirmed Cases: 331
Total Confirmed Cases: 16,888
New Deaths: 1
Total Confirmed and Probable Deaths: 352

Franklin County

New Confirmed Cases:185
Total Confirmed Cases: 6,071
New Deaths: 0
Total Confirmed and Probable Deaths: 133

MassDPH COVID-19 Dashboard

Higher education

There are 2,136 new cases in the last week with a total of 34,166 confirmed COVID-19 cases in higher education institutions. In the last week, there were 52,110 new tests reported with a total of 12,792,429.