Danvers Coronavirus Test Rates Surge For Second Straight Week

DANVERS, MA — Danvers was not able to escape rising coronavirus rates for the second straight week.

While the town remains a green "safe" community, according to state metrics, its number of cases per 100,000 residents — the number the state uses to determine whether communities can continue to ease business restrictions amid the reopening — rose to 3.8 after being 3.3 per 100,000 residents last week.

The town's test-positive remains relatively low at 0.81 percent, but that number is also up from last week's rate of 0.69 percent. Danvers reported 15 new case over the past two weeks.

The numbers also followed a troubling trend statewide as 63 communities were designed "red" high-risk in the new town-by-town data — up from 40 the week before. The state as a whole also passed the threshold of eight cases per 100,000 residents, while the statewide test-positive rate is 1.2 percent.

The positive test rate over the last two weeks increased in 168 — or 47.9 percent — of the 351 communities in the state. The rate fell in 80 — or 22.8 percent — communities and held steady in the remaining 103.

Statewide, the positive test rate rose to 1.3 percent, up from 0.8 percent in mid-September.

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