All three towns in ‘gray’

Mar 12, 2021

Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester are all designated as ‘gray’ — the safest possible designation in the state’s color-coded covid risk designation system. 

In the risk designation system, less than or equal to 10 active covid cases designates a community as gray, between 10 an 15 cases puts a community in green, less than or equal to 25 cases marks a town as yellow, and communities with more than 25 cases are designated as red.

The state doesn’t provide the raw active case data used to determine risk designation in its weekly reports, but it does provide data for new cases identified in each town in the commonwealth. 

According to March 11 data, there were no new cases in Marion for the second week in a row, Mattapoisett saw two new cases and Rochester reported one. 

This is the lowest that the case count has been across the Tri-Town since early October, when two cases in Mattapoisett were the only new cases recorded in the Tri-Town. 

According to the Old Rochester Regional School District’s covid dashboard, there are four individuals related to the district who are currently in isolation with active cases of covid. There is one case each at Center School, Old Hammondtown, Rochester Memorial, and the Junior High. There are another 16 individuals currently in quarantine as a result of contact tracing in the district.