COVID-19 cases reported to the Connecticut Department of Public Health dropped by half in Bethel and New Fairfield, but nearly doubled in Brookfield compared to last week. Rates held fairly steady in New Milford and Newtown.

The test positivity rates for Greater Danbury area municipalities over the last 7 days has been updated.  There was no data this week reported for Redding.  At home tests are not reported. 

The rates are:

Newtown 5.5 percent

New Milford 6.3 percent

Bethel 6.78 percent

Ridgefield 11.6 percent

Danbury 11.7 percent

New Fairfield 11.8 percent

Brookfield 12.1 percent

New state data released Thursday shows a decrease in COVID-19 positivity compared to last week.  The rolling 7-day average dropped from 12-percent to 9.88. There were 3,400 positive COVID cases reported to the state out of about 34,000 tests, about 6,000 fewer tests than last week. 

The number of people in Connecticut hospitals testing positive for COVID-19 over the last 7 days increased by 4.  The inpatient total is 329. Of that total, 36.47 percent are not fully vaccinated.

The BA5 Omicron subvariant of COVID-19 makes up the majority of the cases sent for genomic sequencing in Connecticut for the week ending August 6th.  According to the latest report, 88.2 percent of samples were BA5, while 7.8 percent were BA4.  BA2 accounts for 3.9 percent.