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 July 7th, there were 42 cases in Danbury, Bethel reported 22, Brookfield had 13 and New Fairfield 9. There were 9 COVID cases in New Milford, 14 in Newtown, Redding reported 0 cases while Ridgefield had 18.
The weekly test positivity rates are:
Redding no positives this week
New Milford 3.9 percent
Brookfield 9.21 percent
Newtown 9.6 percent
Danbury 9.8 percent
Ridgefield 13.9 percent
Bethel 14.7 percent
New Fairfield 15.1 percent
The number COVID-associated deaths in Connecticut has grown by 10 since last Thursday.
New state data released Thursday show there were 3,400 positive COVID cases reported to the state over the last 7 days out of 32,000 tests. The rolling 7-day average positivity rate was 10.64 percent. The number of people in Connecticut hospitals testing positive during that time increased by 29. The inpatient total is 264. The state is also reporting a cumulative breakthrough rate of COVID-19 infections among the fully vaccinated population, since vaccines first became available, of 8.95 percent.
Since Connecticut began genomic sequencing of COVID-19 positive tests, 45.46 percent of samples have come back as being a strain of the Omicron variant, outpacing the previous dominant variant. Delta accounted for 41.76 percent of samples tested. Alpha, the first variant, was found in a total of 6.47 percent of samples tested.
