More than a year into the COVID-19 restrictions that have reshaped much of public life, Massachusetts has a target date for when its business and capacity limits are set to be lifted: Aug. 1, 2021.
That date could come earlier depending on key public health metrics around vaccination, hospitalizations and case counts, Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday as he detailed a suite of short- and longer-term updates to the state s reopening timeline. The light at the end of the tunnel, thanks to the hard work of so many, is getting closer, and we can start to look ahead with real optimism for the path forward, Baker said.
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State House News Service
There are now 1,530,080 people in Massachusetts who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus that has infected 609,533 Bay State residents and killed 17,337.
Soon after announcing that the state had officially surpassed 1.5 million full vaccinations on Tuesday, the Department of Public Health confirmed 1,566 new cases of COVID-19 and announced the recent deaths of 12 people from the virus that has been spreading through the state for more than a year.
The state s average positive test rate and the number of people with COVID-19 being treated in Massachusetts hospitals both increased in the latest report from DPH. The seven-day average of the positive test rate rose from 2.37 percent in Monday s report to 2.50 percent as of Tuesday.