By Kane DiMasso-Scott
While there seems to be a surge in new COVID-19 cases in Suffolk County, Winthrop’s 2-week percent positivity rating has decreased slightly according to the latest data released on Aug. 4. The current percent positivity rating rests at 9.4 percent, down from 10.26 percent the week prior.
The most recent two-week case count saw 71 new cases out of 819 tests administered. This brings the total case count in Town throughout the Pandemic up to 5,696, according to the data published on Aug. 4. A total of 129,217 tests have been administered within the Town.
On the state level, there have been 144 patients primarily hospitalized for COVID-19 related illness and 560 total patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
As of Aug. 2, there were 57 patients in Intensive Care Units (ICU) and 15 patients were intubated.
There were 41 new, confirmed deaths reported during the past 7 days. There have been 19,939 confirmed deaths in total.
The average age of patients who died of COVID-19 in the Commonwealth during the past reporting two weeks (July 17 to July 30) was 77 years old.