Wareham has seen 36 new cases of covid-19 in the past week, according to the state’s Weekly Public Health Report released March 11.
After holding steady at 33 new cases each week over the lastthreeweeks, 36 new covid cases in a week marked an ever-so-slight slight increase in the town’s numbers.
Wareham’s average daily incidence rate increased a bit to 19.2 cases per 100,000 people in the past 14 days. Given Wareham’s population, this means there were about 4.42 new cases each day over the past two weeks.
Wareham has also seen a percent positivity rate or the percentage of covid-19 tests performed that come back positive of 3.95 percent over the last 14 days.