COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in the Greater Danbury area.  Bethel, Brookfield and Redding have moved into the Red Zone, the highest of four alert levels for community spread.  They join Southbury, Ridgefield, Wilton and Weston which were at that level last week, each town having 15 or more cases per 100,000 population in the last two weeks reported, ending April 9th.  

Newtown, New Fairfield, Sherman and Easton are in the orange with 10 to 14 cases per 100,000 population.  New Milford and Danbury are in the yellow zone at 5 to 9 cases. 

Over the last two weeks there were 95 cases reported in Danbury, Bethel reported 53, Brookfield had 39 and New Fairfield 21. There were 32 COVID cases in New Milford, 5 5in Newtown, Redding reported 21 cases while Ridgefield had 90. 

The state department of Public Health is reporting COVID-19 case rates for the Greater Danbury area ticked up slightly from last week. Case rates for the week ending April 9nd range from about 8 to 25, up from 7 to 17, cases per 100,000 population.
The rates are:

Danbury 8

New Milford 8.5

New Fairfield 10.8

Newtown 14.1

Brookfield 16.4

Redding 16.5

Bethel 19.1

Ridgefield 25.8.

The lowest test positivity is in Danbury and the highest is in Brookfield.  At home COVID-19 test results are not reported to the state. 
The rates are:

Danbury 4.4 percent

Newtown 4.6 percent

New Milford 5.7 percent

New Fairfield 5.7 percent

Bethel 7.1 percent

Ridgefield 7.7 percent

Redding 8.2 percent

Brookfield 9.8 percent

The number COVID-associated deaths in Connecticut has grown by 14 since last Thursday.  The state is also reporting a breakthrough rate of COVID-19 infections among the state's fully vaccinated population of 6.83 percent, up a bit from the week before.