WESTFIELD — The city’s director of public health said Wednesday evening that COVID-19 cases in Westfield have remained unusually steady for the entire summer, as his staff is keeping watch to see if the return of the school year leads to a bump in cases.

Health Director Joseph Rouse said during the Board of Health meeting Wednesday that from June 1 to this week, the average weekly laboratory confirmed case count was 66 in Westfield, and the week-to-week case count deviated little from that average. These counts do not include at-home tests, only PCR tests through certified labs, meaning that the real number of cases is certainly higher, but it cannot be said by how much.

Rouse said that for comparison, there was one week in February, at the tail end of the original omicron variant wave, in which 270 cases were confirmed in Westfield. The city hit a low point this year during a week in March that saw just 19 cases reported.

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