COVID-19 cases reported to the Connecticut Department of Public Health were cut by more than half in Brookfield, New Milford and Newtown compared to last week. Cases fell by more than a quarter in Danbury over the last 7 days. There was no data for New Fairfield or Redding this week. Rates held fairly steady in most other Greater Danbury area municipalities.
The Connecticut Department of Public Health has updated case rates for Greater Danbury area municipalities over the last 7 days. According to the report ending September 1st, there were 35 cases in Danbury, Bethel reported 11, and Brookfield had 6. There were 8 COVID cases in New Milford, 14 in Newtown, while Ridgefield had 10.
Most Greater Danbury area towns reported 100 to 200 COVID-19 tests to the state over the last 7 days. There were just 96 reported in Brookfield. Danbury reported 476 tests, about the same as the week before. Newtown reported 516 tests to the state this week.
The Connecticut Department of Public Health has updated test positivity rates for Greater Danbury area municipalities over the last 7 days. At home tests are not reported.
The rates are:
Newtown 3.3 percent
New Milford 3.4 percent
Brookfield 7.2 percent
Ridgefield 8.2 percent
Danbury 8.4 percent
Bethel 10.6 percent
New state data released Thursday shows a decrease in COVID-19 positivity compared to last week. The rolling 7-day average is 8.97 percent, down from 10.6 percent the week before. There were 3,400 positive COVID cases reported to the state out of nearly 39,000 tests, only slightly more each than last week.
The number of people in Connecticut hospitals testing positive for COVID-19 over the last 7 days increased by 1. The inpatient total is 353, with 42-percent not fully vaccinated. 19 more patients in Fairfield County hospitals this week tested positive compared to last week.
The number COVID-associated deaths in Connecticut has grown by 17 since last Thursday.
The BA5 Omicron subvariant of COVID-19 continues to make up the majority of the cases sent for genomic sequencing in Connecticut for the week ending August 20th, but BA4 is edging up. According to the latest report, 84.6 percent of samples were BA5, while 15.4 percent were BA4.
