The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Massachusetts climbed by 702, bringing the total to 139,353, state officials said Friday, as Boston Public Schools announced that it was delaying the return to classrooms for students in prekindergarten through third grade by at least a week.
The state also said the percentage of people tested for COVID-19 who are positive leaped from 3.9 percent to 5.8 percent, its highest position in many weeks and more than three times the rate at the beginning of September.
Boston officials decided those prekindergarten through third grade students would begin in-person learning no sooner than Oct. 29 after the citywide infection rate ticked up to 4.4 percent, the School Department said in a statement.
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