33 people tested positive for COVID-19 at a nursing home in West Yarmouth, confirmed by health officials

It was not immediately clear how many Maplewood residents and staff who recently tested positive for COVID were already vaccinated. Multiple calls to the nursing home by the Globe Reporter were not returned.

According to DPH, “residents who test positive are offered monoclonal antibody therapy.” “All positive staff are stable.”

Maplewood at Mayflower Place, located at 579 Buck Island Road in West Yarmouth, is a “continuous long-term care retirement community” according to its website. This facility provides various services such as independent living, long-term care, and long-term care / rehabilitation center.

In response to the growing number of new cases in the region, the Public Health Service released guidance on Monday to manage the COVID-19 epidemic in long-term care facilities in Barnstable County. The guidelines include continued weekly testing of unvaccinated staff and mandatory masking for visitors regardless of vaccination status.

Experts warn that the prevalence of highly infectious Delta variants will increase cases. Approximately 83% of all COVID-19 cases in the country..

Increasing number of cases in Provincetown Declared as a “cluster” “Opportunities for exposure have spread to Provincetown rather than focusing on a single activity or location,” officials said, according to the Public Health Service.

According to town manager Alex Morse, the “overwhelming majority” of 132 cases identified in Provincetown from July 1st to July 16th were vaccinated people.

Provincetown reported an average daily incidence of COVID-19 in 13.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. According to DPH dataIn the two weeks from June 27th to July 10th, this was significantly higher than the state-wide average of only 1.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants during that period.

Elsewhere in the Cape, Yarmouth reported an average of 2.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants during the two-week stretch, and Harwich reported 4.5 cases per 100,000. Weekly data on cities and towns is published every Thursday by the Massachusetts Public Health Service.

“We have just finished the busiest two weeks of the whole summer, so if you see a very dense population in a very small space on the weekend of July 4, you are more likely to get infected. I will do it. ” Senator Julian Sill, a spokeswoman for the Cape Cod COVID-19 Response Task Force, said.

“Testing is the best tool to stop the increase in cases, and vaccination remains the strongest defense against serious illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19,” he said. Told.

Linda Churun, former selection committee member of Bourne, Died From Friday’s serious COVID-19 complications, the Cape Cod Times reported. According to a close friend and one of his neighbors, the solid conservative Zueln, 70, had not been vaccinated.

In Massachusetts, cases are slowly increasing.7-day average of cases in the state Rose After hitting a low of 52 on June 28, it reached 161 last week.

Nevertheless, in Massachusetts, the number of confirmed cases of the virus in vaccinated people remains low. data A public health service announced last week found that 0.1 percent of people vaccinated in the state were infected with the virus. As of Saturday, DPH reported 4,450 “breakthrough” cases of the virus among 4,195,844 vaccinated people.

Massachusetts still holds one of the highest immunization rates in the country. 83.4% of adults in the state have been vaccinated at least once as of Monday. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nursing homes also have a small number of cases throughout Massachusetts. Last week, only six institutions reported new cases, each adding one or two, according to a DPH spokesperson. As of June 12, 88% of nursing home residents and 73% of staff have been fully vaccinated, according to DPH.

Globe staff Amanda Kaufman contributed to this article.

Alexandra Chaides can be reached at [email protected]..