By the numbers

Cases continued to rise steadily this week, while hospitalizations went up in Massachusetts and down in Rhode Island. Massachusetts Cases: 1,803,391 Deaths: 19,898 Current Hospitalizations: 616 People Vaccinated: 5,430,832 (as of July 25) People Boosted: 3,160,084 (as of July 25) Source: Massachusetts Department of Public Health Rhode Island Cases: 410,066 Deaths: 3,630 Current Hospitalizations: 69 People Vaccinated: 899,689 (as of July 27) People Boosted: 446,124 (as of July 27) Source: Rhode Island Department of Health US Vaccine Doses Administered: 599,333,639 Cases: 91,056,519 Deaths: 1,029,101 Source: Johns Hopkins Worldwide Vaccine Doses Administered: 11,952,009,868 Cases: 574,446,639 Deaths: 6,394,283 Source: Johns Hopkins View all updates and numbers on Globe.com Current waste water levels The amount of coronavirus detected in Mass. waste water fluctuated up and down in recent weeks, but remained markedly lower than the Omicron surge earlier this year.

 

Waste Water COVID-19 tracking Source: Massachusetts Water Resources Authority • Ryan Huddle / Globe Staff

 

 

 

Tracking variants and viruses BA.5 remained the dominant variant of cases nationwide by far, in the week ending July 23. The mutation has raised the likelihood of reinfections. The dominant variant: BA.5 (81.9% of US cases) Other variants: BA.4 (12.9%), BA.2.12.1 (5%) Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Other top stories The World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency on Saturday. Here’s an explainer about its symptoms, risk, and testing information.  Sexually transmitted diseases, which declined in the early months of the pandemic, have resurged, surpassing levels that were already climbing before 2019.