The state Department of Public Health this week did not provide an update on COVID-19 data in Bethel, Danbury and New Fairfield.  According to the report for the two weeks ending March 12, there were 14 cases in Brookfield, 20 COVID cases in New Milford, 21 in Newtown, Redding reported 16 cases while Ridgefield had 3 8. 

COVID-19 case rates for the Greater Danbury area are holding steady from last week. Case rates for the week ending March 12th range from 5 to 12 cases per 100,000 population. 

The rates are:

New Milford 5.3

Newtown 5.4

Brookfield 5.9

Ridgefield 10.9

Redding 12.5

Test rates are also holding fairly steady from last week, ranging from 2.3 percent to 6 percent.   At home COVID-19 test results are not reported to the state. 

The rates are:

Newtown 2.3 percent

Brookfield 3.1 percent

New Milford 4.2 percent 

Ridgefield 4.7 percent

Redding 6.2 percent

Color continues to drain from the map of Connecticut when it comes to COVID-19 community spread.  Sherman, Redding and Ridgefield each reported 10 to 15 cases per 100,000 population over the last two weeks.  Brookfield, New Milford, Newtown and Southbury had 5 to 9 cases per 100,000 population over the last two weeks.

The number COVID-associated deaths has grown by 62 since last Thursday. 

New state data released Thursday show there were 404 positive COVID cases reported to the state since Wednesday out of nearly 17-thousand tests.  The daily positivity rate was 2.4 percent.  The number of people in Connecticut hospitals testing positive increased by 2, for a total of 100.  43 percent of those patients are not fully vaccinated.  The state is also reporting a breakthrough rate of COVID-19 infections among the state's fully vaccinated population of 6.5 percent. 

Connecticut is seeing a slight uptick in the number of residents starting their COVID-19 vaccine series since last week.  Now 94-percent of 35 to 44 year olds, 85-percent of 18 to 24 year olds and 48-percent of kids 5 to 11 have gotten at least one dose.  Each is a 1 percent increase.

Nearly 100 percent of COVID-19 tests sent for genomic sequencing in Connecticut came back as a strain of the Omicron variant, according to the latest weekly report.  Delta accounts for 51-percent of variants detected through testing total, Omicron 33-percent and Alpha--the UK variant, about 8 percent.