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The town of Winchester continues to be in the yellow zone for infectious rate of COVID-19, but the overall numbers are sliding, according to state data released on Feb. 18.
Over the past 14 days, the average daily incidence rate was 24.7 while the while the percent positivity was 1.66. Both numbers showed a lowering trend from the prior week, following statewide trends.
In that same period, 5,296 tests were taken in Winchester with just 88 coming back positive.
According to the town s dashboard, Winchester had 27 confirmed active cases as of Feb. 15. There were 1,017 overall recovered cases and 15 deaths.
Winchester Public Schools also reported a steady decline with just seven active confirmed cases. Overall, there have been 215 total recovered cases.
Todd Wallis of Kennebunk, retired advertising executive, dies at 85
The Massachusetts native, who succumbed to complications of COVID-19, was also an artist, musician and writer.
Todd Wallis in a family photo
In the hours before Todd Wallis died from complications of COVID-19, he lay in his residence at Huntington Common in Kennebunk, alone but comfortable as his daughter spoke in his ear from miles away.
Julie Maneikis of Byfield, Massachusetts, was reassured her father could hear her. She sat hunkered in her basement and talked her father through a meditation of a day in his life at Drakes Island in Wells.
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