The number of Massachusetts communities with the highest risk of coronavirus transmission continues to drop, with 110 cities and towns making the state’s “red zone” list this week.
There are 43 fewer cities compared to Last week and a big drop from the end of January, when more than 200 communities were on the list.
The state’s average daily case rate for the past two weeks is also declining. It currently stands at 38.5 cases per 100,000 residents, a yellow designation, compared with 48.9 cases last week per 100,000 residents on average in the previous two weeks, which put the state in the red zone.
A community receives a red designation based on a number of factors. Small communities with less than 10,000 residents are placed in the red zone if they have had more than 25 cases in total in the past two weeks, according to the state. For communities between 10,000 and 50,000 people, a red zone designation is given if the community has 10 or more average cases per 100,000 residents and if the positivity rate is greater than or equal to 5 percent. For communities with more than 50,000, they need 10 or more cases per 100,000 residents and a positivity rate of 4 percent or more.
Here’s a look at each of the towns and villages in the red zone this week. Communities are listed in alphabetical order; all state data can be found on here.
- Abington
- Acushnet
- Adams
- Attleboro
- Auburn
- Avon
- Ayer
- Barnstable
- Bellingham
- Berkley
- Black stone
- Boxford
- Brewster
- Bridgewater
- Brockton
- Carver
- Chatham
- Chelsea
- Chicopee
- Clinton
- Cohasset
- Dartmouth
- Dedham
- Dennis
- Dighton
- Douglas
- Dracut
- East Bridgewater
- Eastham
- Everett
- Fairhaven
- Fall River
- Foxborough
- Freetown
- gardener
- Georgetown
- Great Barrington
- Halifax
- Hamilton
- Hampden
- Hanover
- Hanson
- Haverhill
- Holbrook
- Holyoke
- Hudson
- hull
- Lakeville
- Lawrence
- Leominster
- Littleton
- Lowell
- Ludlow
- Lunenburg
- Lynn
- Malden
- Marion
- Marlborough
- Marshfield
- Methuen
- Middleborough
- Middleton
- Monson
- New bedford
- Northern Reading
- Norwood
- Orleans
- Oxford
- Palmer
- Paxton
- Peabody
- Pembroke
- Plainville
- Plymouth
- Quincy
- Randolph
- Raynham
- Revere
- Rochester
- Rockland
- Rutland
- Salisbury
- Sandwich
- Saugus
- Seekonk
- Shirley
- Somerset
- Southampton
- Southborough
- Southbridge
- Southwick
- Spencer
- Springfield
- Sterling
- Sunderland
- Sutton
- Swansea
- Taunton
- Templeton
- Townsend
- porcelain
- Webster
- West Bridgewater
- West Brookfield
- West Springfield
- Westminster
- Westport
- Weymouth
- Whitman
- Winchendon
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