May 26, 2020
After Memorial Day weekend, Worcester County now has 692 coronavirus deaths, 10,505 cases
Photo | Grant Welker
Milford Regional Medical Center
By Grant Welker
For some, Memorial Day weekend was a time to venture outside or gather with some normalcy after months of trying to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
For Worcester County though, new coronavirus numbers showed stubbornly high rates, particularly for hospitalizations. More than 400 new coronavirus cases were reported over the long weekend, along with 40 deaths in the county, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The Worcester County death toll now stands at 692 while the total number of cases is 10,505.
Statewide, 2,382 new cases were reported and 188 new deaths. There are now 93,271 confirmed cases across Massachusetts and 6,416 deaths.
In the city of Worcester, 139 new cases reported over the long weekend brings the total to 3,985.
Central Massachusetts hospitals are seeing a slightly declining number of inpatient and intensive care patients.
UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester reported 154 inpatient cases Monday, with 56 in intensive care. That's a slight drop from a month ago when those numbers were 165 and 56, respectively. At Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, 54 coronavirus patients are being treated, including 11 in the ICU. That's a change from 66 and nine, respectively, a month ago.
MetroWest Medical Center, with campuses in Framingham and Natick, has 54 inpatient cases and nine in the ICU, down from 58 and 16, respectively, a month ago.
The number of tests conducted statewide has hit 540,561, with another 8,188 reported Monday by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
The United States is nearing 100,000 deaths, with 98,228 reported through Tuesday morning by Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Confirmed cases are nearing 1.7 million. Worldwide, more than 5.5 million cases have been confirmed, along with 347,000 deaths.
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