CT Coronavirus Updates: 2 More Deaths As Cases Tick Upward

CONNECTICUT — The State Department of Public Health reported two more coronavirus-related deaths and 460 new cases, as communities prepare to relax venue capacity restrictions for Phase 3 of Connecticut's reopening next week.

With 33,808 new tests taken, the DPH is reporting a positivity rate of just under 1.4 percent, a 0.4 percent drop from the previous day's reckoning

The number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 is 110, up by three beds.

On Friday, Gov. Ned Lamont said that coronavirus infection rates in Connecticut had "ticked up a little bit over the past few weeks," but that New York and Massachusetts had seen spikes as well.

On Thursday, the DPH issued a COVID-19 alert for Norwich due to a recent spike in new cases in the last two weeks. Between Sept. 13-26, Norwich recorded at least 84 new COVID-19 cases to raise the daily case rate to 24 per 100,000, the highest rate in the state.

The largest single-day differences in total cases by week are:

1. Mansfield: 70
2. Norwich: 48
3. Fairfield: 46
4. Hartford: 45
5. Danbury: 31
6. New London: 27
7. Waterbury: 25
8. Stamford: 23
9. New Britain: 17
10. Windham: 14

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The largest increase in cases over the past week by town are:

1. Norwich: 139
2. Hartford: 102
3. Danbury: 92
4. Mansfield: 82
5. Fairfield: 81
6. Waterbury: 75
7. New Britain: 73
8. New London: 66
9. Bridgeport: 62
10. Stamford: 51