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6 Wakefield Students Tested Positive For COVID-19 In October

Wakefield, which has been labeled high risk the past two weeks, released a new dashboard Tuesday on the virus's impact in town.

WAKEFIELD, MA — Six students in the Wakefield Public Schools have tested positive for COVID-19 this month, according to a new data dashboard released by the town on Tuesday. One student tested positive for the virus in September.

The data includes remote-only and hybrid students who have tested positive with a PCR test. So far, there have been no cases among WPS staff.

The state labeled Wakefield a high-risk community for infection in its last two weekly updates, which officials attributed to a cluster of cases at one location about two weeks ago. There are currently 37 active cases of the coronavirus in Wakefield, according to the dashboard.

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The town's percent positivity rate – 2.59 percent – is on the higher end of communities in the area. Saugus is the only nearby town with a higher positivity rate at 2.93 percent.

Click here for Wakefield's COVID-19 dashboard.

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