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New coronavirus cases were virtually flat this week, while vaccination numbers finally climbed after an eight-week slide.

On Friday evening, the state and its seven health districts reported 193,604 confirmed or probable coronavirus cases, a 0.4 percent increase from last week.

Other metrics showed some improvement.

Vaccinations were up for the week, by 38 percent. Despite the increase, vaccinations are well below the record 92,787 jabs administered over a seven-day period ending March 26.

Only 3.9 percent of coronavirus tests came back positive. That’s well below 5 percent — the threshold many public health experts use to determine whether an outbreak is under control. And 3.9 percent is the state’s lowest positivity rate since June 2020.

Here are this week’s numbers, and comparisons with the previous week:

Weekly positive test rate, as reported by the state: 3.9 percent for week ending June 5, compared to 4.4 percent the previous week.