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There were no new cases of COVID-19 reported on Martha’s Vineyard Friday. Over the past seven days, there have been seven new positive results and in the entire month of March there have been 25 total cases. By comparison, there were 235 cases in December.
In an expanded report on Friday, the Island boards of health reported no new cases of COVID-19 on the Island. In total, there have been 946 confirmed positive results on the Island — 466 males and 480 females. There have also been 58 probable cases — 32 male and 26 female. There have been 351 cases — 37 percent of the total — that have been linked to at least one other cases. In most instances those involved family members or small social groups. The Island has had five clusters, including an October wedding (8 cases), Cronig’s Market (19 cases), a Bible study group (11 cases), MV Hospital (5 cases), and Project Headway (4 cases).
As of Monday, the Island boards of health will begin reporting the data on a weekly basis, according to Maura Valley, Tisbury’s health agent.
The hospital has now administered 14,836 tests, with 670 positive results. There have been 14,123 negative tests and there are 35 results pending.
Meanwhile, TestMV, which is located in the parking lot at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, has now administered 35,097 tests, with 260 positive results, 34,334 negative results, and 503 tests pending.
The town of Aquinnah has conducted 442 tests, of which one has come back positive, 441 negative, with no pending results.
The Martha’s Vineyard public schools have administered 6,976 tests. Of those, four have tested positive. The public school data is updated once a week on Mondays, and for the second week in a row there were no new cases in the schools.
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has reported a total of seven positive cases of COVID-19.
Due to how tests are conducted, there can be a discrepancy between the number of positive individuals and the number of positive tests reported.
At the state level, there were 1,887 new confirmed cases Friday. The state estimates there are 25,986 active cases, and the state’s seven-day average of percent positivity is at 2.01 percent. There were also 43 deaths Friday, for a total of 16,469 since March 2020.
More vaccine sign-ups
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital will open its portals for vaccine appointments on Saturday at 8 am and again on Monday at 5 pm, Marissa Lefebvre, a spokesman for the hospital, wrote in an email.
As of Friday, the hospital has administered just shy of 9,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine with 68 percent of them being first doses.
The hospital continues to include teachers in the sign-ups, Lefebvre wrote.
It’s unclear just how many doses of the vaccine the hospital will get for next week, she wrote. On Monday, individuals 60 and older become eligible for the vaccine under new guidelines released by Gov. Charlie Baker earlier this week. Baker is also lifting restrictions as of Monday on certain venues and has changed travel restrictions to an advisory.
All of this comes as the Island is averaging one case of COVID-19 per day for the past three weeks.
Updated with today’s data.
