Vaccination rate increasing in Mass. as fewer communities in red zone – Boston.com
For the third week straight, Massachusetts health officials reported a decrease in the number of communities at the highest risk of coronavirus transmission.
The Department of Public Health also released its weekly vaccine dashboard Thursday, which displayed a rise in both vaccinations and vaccine dose shipments to Massachusetts, though shots are being administered quicker than they’re arriving.
Thursday’s town-by-town coronavirus risk data categorizes communities’ risk level on a scale from red, the highest, to gray, the lowest — this week officials reported 153 towns in the red zone, compared to 192 last Thursday, continuing along the same downward trend as the past few weeks.
See this Thursday’s full town-by-town coronavirus data here.
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