863 COVID-19 cases removed from states total due to retesting, DPH says – WCVB Boston

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported an additional 980 confirmed COVID-19 cases Tuesday, bringing the statewide total to 551,667 since the start of the pandemic.The DPH noted that Tuesday’s report includes an update to the total case numbers. The department says it received corrected laboratory reports on approximately 1,500 cases that a lab had reported as positive.According to the DPH, retesting resulted in 863 of those cases being removed from the case counts.State health officials also added 37 confirmed COVID-19-related deaths to the state’s total, which is now 15,859. As of Tuesday, a total of 2,061,330 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been shipped to the state, of which 1,813,992 — or 88% — have been administered. So far, 565,421 people have received both doses in Massachusetts. An estimated 28,867 cases are active across Massachusetts, according to the report. This marks the first time that the number of estimated active cases in the state is below 30,000 since Nov. 14, 2020.Click here to see a graphical look at COVID-19 dataLatest town-by-town breakdown released by state The report said 775 patients with confirmed coronavirus cases were hospitalized in Massachusetts, of which 187 were reported to be in an intensive care unit.In the DPH’s weekly report released on Thursday, 28 communities were in the “Red,” or at high risk of COVID-19, down from 66 communities the week before. The state says there have been 494,740 recoveries, according to the latest weekly report.Massachusetts COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and fatalitiesMassachusetts vaccination progressNew data is typically published daily around 5 p.m. and weekly reports are typically released on Thursdays, also around 5 p.m.