Top Official Tests Positive As COVID-19 Infection Rate Rises In CT

CONNECTICUT, CT — The state COVID-19 test positivity rate has been trending slightly upward the past week, with momentum that continued over the weekend.

The 7-day rolling average release by the state Department of Public Health on Monday was 5.5 percent, up from the 5.27 percent average reported on Friday.

There are 104 residents hospitalized with COVID-19, down 13 beds since Friday. The rolling 7-day average is also in triple digits, a tier it has not occupied since March 23. Of those patients currently hospitalized, 41, or 39.42 percent, are not fully vaccinated.

Among the latest to test positive for the virus was Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz. Connecticut's lieutenant governor said she was asymptomatic, a condition common among many who test positive for the omicron subvariant, BA.2. Bysiewicz took a regularly-scheduled rapid test Sunday, and is awaiting the results of a PCR test, according to a spokseman.

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Bysiewicz is joining her boss in quarantine. On Thursday, Gov. Ned Lamont revealed he had tested positive for COVID-19, but later reported a slight headache and hoarse voice. On Monday, Lamont warned there is "community spread out there ... especially among folks who haven't been infected before."