Coronavirus infections are rising in Springfield, Massachusetts even as vaccines become more widely available.
While COVID-19 cases have fallen statewide in Massachusetts for three consecutive weeks after a new wave of infections crested in mid-March, Springfield has seen its weekly case counts climb during that time.
The city recorded 548 cases last week, an increase of 27. Springfield is one of 59 municipalities in Massachusetts still considered to be at high risk for community spread of the coronavirus, according to the latest weekly report from the state health department.
As it has been for several weeks now, the vast majority of the COVID-19 cases in Springfield are people under the age of 50 – with 57 percent of the new cases people age 30 and under.
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With a majority of new coronavirus infections occurring in younger people in Springfield, Massachusetts, efforts are planned to encourage vaccinations.
Fifty-nine percent of the new COVID-19 cases in Springfield last week were in people age 30 and younger, while people age 51 and older accounted for just 16 percent of the most recent infections.
There was a five percent drop from the previous week in new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Springfield residents age 51 and older, according to Health and Human Services Commissioner Helen Caulton-Harris.
Those ages groups that we see that have been vaccinated we are seeing those numbers in those age groups lower, said Caulton-Harris.
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