A total of 190 cities and towns in Massachusetts, including Boston, are now considered to be at the highest risk of transmitting coronavirus, an increase of two from last week.
The data, released on New Year’s Eve by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, represents the third consecutive week that more than half of the state’s communities were in the red zone. On the same day, the state announced a record number of new COVID-19 cases.
The weekly town-by-town report includes a breakdown of the total number of coronavirus cases in each Massachusetts town and town, transmission rates, data on clusters, and more. Last week, the state also launched a new vaccine control panel.
The numbers have risen steadily for weeks, as have coronavirus case totals, amid a new surge that has a shortage of intensive care beds in some hospitals. (See this week’s full list of red zones below.)
The following 190 communities are at the highest risk level as of Thursday:
Abington, Acushnet, Agawam, Amesbury, Andover, Ashburnham, Athol, Attleboro, Auburn, Avon, Ayer, Barnstable, Bellingham, Berkley, Beverly, Billerica, Blackstone, Boston, Boxford, Boylston, Braintree, Bridgewater, Brockton, Brookfield, Burlington, Canton, Carver, Charlton, Chelmsford, Chelsea, Chicopee, Clinton, Cohasset, Danvers, Dartmouth, Dedham, Dennis, Dighton, Douglas, Dover, Dracut, Dudley, East Bridgewater, East Longmeadow, Easton, Everett, Fairhaven, Fall River, Fitchburg, Foxborough, Framingham, Franklin, Freetown, Gardner, Georgetown, Grafton, Granby, Groveland, Hadley, Halifax, Hamilton, Hanover, Hanson, Haverhill, Holbrook, Holden, Holliston, Holyoke, Hopedale, Hudson, Hull, Ipswich, Kingston, Lakeville, Lancaster, Lawrence, Lee, Leicester, Leominster, Littleton, Longmeadow, Lowell, Ludlow, Lunenburg, Lynn, Lynnfield, Malden, Manchester, Mansfield, Marlborough, Marshfield, Mashpee, Mattapoisett, Melrose, Merrimac, Methuen, Middleborough, Middleton, Milford, Millbury, Millis, Milton, Monson, Montague, Nantucket, New Bedford, Newbury, Norfolk, North Andover, North Attleborough, North Brookfield, North Reading, Norton, Norwell, Norwood, Orange, Oxford, Palmer, Paxton, Peabody, Pembroke, Pepperell, Plainville, Plymouth, Quincy, Randolph, Raynham, Reading, Rehoboth, Revere, Rochester, Rockland, Rockport, Rowley, Rutland, Salem, Salisbury, Saugus, Scituate, Seekonk, Shirley, Shrewsbury, Somerset, South Hadley, Southampton, Southborough, Southbridge, Southwick, Spencer, Springfield, Sterling, Stoneham, Stoughton, Sturbridge, Sutton, Swampscott, Swansea, Taunton, Templeton, Tewksbury, Topsfield, Townsend, Tyngsborough, Upton, Uxbridge, Wakefield, Walpole, Waltham, Ware, Wareham, Webster, Wenham, West Boylston, West Bridgewater, West Brookfield, West Springfield, Westfield, Westford, Westminster, Westport, Weymouth, Whitman, Wilbraham, Wilmington, Winchendon, Winthrop, Woburn, Worcester, Wrentham y Yarmouth.
The state itself is also in the red, for the fourth week in a row.
Of the communities in red, 17 are just in the red on the list: Boston, Canton, Dennis, Dover, Foxborough, Hopedale, Ipswich, Kingston, Mashpee, Norwell, Rockport, Scituate, South Hadley, Upton, Ware, Wenham and Wrentham.
These 15 communities came out of the red: Ashland, Brewster, Carlisle, Deerfield, Edgartown, Gloucester, Hingham, Marion, Medway, Mendon, Newburyport, Northborough, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury and Westborough.
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