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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health added 15 new coronavirus cases to the state's total Saturday afternoon.The total number of presumptive and confirmed COVID-19 cases rose from 123 on Friday to a new total of 138.Among the 15 new COVID-19 cases are the first case in Cape Cod and the first case in Worcester.Worcester officials said the first COVID-19 case in the city has been identified. The case is related to a Biogen conference held in Boston last month.The Worcester patient is being monitored by the DPH and remains in isolation. Five other people in the city are awaiting COVID-19 testing and are being monitored by the Worcester Department of Public Health, according to officials.Cape Cod Healthcare said it received confirmation Saturday of the first positive case of the novel coronavirus in Barnstable County.The Barnstable County patient was admitted to a Cape Cod Healthcare hospital with respiratory symptoms and was screened following the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention screening criteria.Cape Cod Healthcare consulted with the DPH, which approved the patient for COVID-19 testing. The test result was reported positive by the state lab about 24 hours later."The patient will remain in our care until they are stable and can return home for the remainder of the CDC-recommended quarantine period," reads a statement from Cape Cod Healthcare. "All staff who came into contact with the patient are currently being monitored."Bristol County also has its first case of COVID-19. Easton Health Department officials said they were notified by the DPH that one of its residents tested positive at the state lab. The resident and all household members, who are not currently symptomatic, are adhering to DPH orders for isolation and self-quarantine.Middlesex County has the most COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts with 65. Norfolk County has 28 cases, Suffolk County has 27, Berkshire County has nine, Essex County has five, Worcester County has two and Barnstable and Bristol counties each have one.Of all the cases across the Commonwealth, 11 patients had to be hospitalized, while 105 of the patients did not need any hospitalization. State health officials said 22 cases remain under investigation.The state health statistics indicate 104 of the cases were connected to last month's Biogen conference, eight of the cases were related to what the DPH calls the "Western Massachusetts cluster," five were travel-related and the origins of 21 cases are still under investigation.Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday said the number of positive test results was expected to increase as more tests are administered. He said the DPH lab had recently received enough materials to quadruple its rate of testing in the near future.Earlier Friday, state and local officials made several announcements intended to combat the spread of COVID-19. Those changes include postponing the Boston Marathon until Sept. 14 and Baker issuing a ban on gatherings of 250 people or more.Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced a plan to close all city schools beginning Tuesday, March 17 through the last week of April. Baker announced Saturday the creation of a COVID-19 response command center in the wake of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Massachusetts.The command center consists of a team of experts who will focus solely on pushing back against the spread of COVID-19 and responding to the needs of the state's communities and residents.Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders, the leader of the command center, also announced that the Massachusetts DPH will formally release testing data about how many individuals in the state have been tested for COVID-19.The state lab has tested 475 COVID-19 cases as of Friday, according to Sudders. According to the DPH's third weekly report about quarantine numbers, which was posted Wednesday, 445 people in Massachusetts are undergoing the two-week-long process. An additional 638 individuals had completed that process and are no longer in quarantine.The Massachusetts House and Senate on Thursday approved a $15 million supplemental budget to help the state respond to the rise of COVID-19 cases. The move came two days after Baker declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts. More information from the DPH on COVID-19 can be found by clicking this link.PHNjcmlwdCBpZD0iaW5mb2dyYW1fMF85MTUyMTg3My03NmRhLTQ0ZmUtOTA0Ny1mMTllZWFlZGFjNmQiIHRpdGxlPSJDb3JvbmF2aXJ1cyBpbiBNYXNzYWNodXNldHRzIiBzcmM9Imh0dHBzOi8vZS5pbmZvZ3JhbS5jb20vanMvZGlzdC9lbWJlZC5qcz9yeXoiIHR5cGU9InRleHQvamF2YXNjcmlwdCI+PC9zY3JpcHQ+