Newton's COVID-19 Positivity Rate Drops To 4.91%

NEWTON, MA — Newton's positive COVID-19 test rate is now at 4.91 percent, a 1.36 percent decrease since last week, according to the latest municipal-level data released by the Department of Public Health Thursday.

This week, the City of Newton reported a two-week case count of 165 compared to last week's case count of 225. Also over the past week, Newton was adding 18.1 new cases per day per 100,000 people. That's lower than the 13.3 cases per 100,000 in Newton measured on August 11.

On Thursday afternoon, the state Department of Public Health reported 8,224 new coronavirus casesin the last week, as well as 47 new deaths and 2,795 vaccine doses administered.

The latest state vaccine report showed the number of fully vaccinated residents rose to more than 5.44 million. Booster doses were given to about 3.19 million residents. Of those boosted, 684,168 received a second booster.

The state releases town-by-town testing data every Thursday, including the number of people tested, the testing rate, the positive test rate, cases and infection rates.