The state Department of Public Health said in its Wednesday daily report that there are 5,278 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Massachusetts, including 152 cases on the Cape and Islands.
Mashpee Town Manager Rodney Collins said the town had experienced its largest increase that he knows of to date, while the U.S. Postal Service said it has had 80 employees in Massachusetts test positive for COVID-19 in the past 30 days.
Steve Doherty, spokesman for the USPS Atlantic Area Northeast Region, said in an email following a weekend announcement by Chatham town officials that four staff people at the North Chatham Post Office had tested positive for COVID-19. The Postal Service also received an anonymous report that members of the South Yarmouth Post Office also had fallen ill.
CHATHAM Town officials are asking clients of the North Chatham Post Office to monitor themselves for symptoms of COVID-19 and consider getting tested after an outbreak among post office staff.
Chatham Director of Health and Natural Resources Robert Duncanson said in a statement Saturday that the occupational health nurse administrator for the northeast region of the U.S. Postal Service reported to the town that four postal staff members had tested positive for COVID-19.
“Positive results were reported to the USPS in the last several days,” he said in the statement.
Two of the four postal staff members with coronavirus live in Chatham. The other two live elsewhere on Cape Cod.