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 21st, there were 60 cases in Danbury, Bethel reported 9, Brookfield had 9 and New Fairfield 11 . There were 15 COVID cases in New Milford, 26 in Newtown, Redding reported 6 cases while Ridgefield had 12.
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 4.6 percent
New Milford 6.8 percent
Bethel 7.2 percent
Ridgefield 9.9 percent
Brookfield 10.6 percent
Redding 10.69 percent
Danbury 11 percent
New Fairfield 11.3 percent.
The number COVID-associated deaths in Connecticut has grown by 8 since last Thursday. The state is also reporting a cumulative breakthrough rate of COVID-19 infections among the more than 2.7 million people who are fully vaccinated of 9.19 percent. There were 4300 positive COVID cases reported to the state over the last 7 days out of 40,000 tests. The rolling 7-day average positivity rate was 10.59 percent. The number of people in Connecticut hospitals testing positive during that time increased by 19. The inpatient total is 312.
The BA5 Omicron subvariant of COVID-19 makes up the majority of the cases sent for genomic sequencing in Connecticut for the week ending July 9th. According to the latest report, 74.3 percent of samples were BA5 while 9.5 percent were BA4. BA2 accounts for 14.9 percent, and the original strain was found in 1.4 percent of samples tested that week.
