CT COVID-19 Positivity Rate Jumps To Highest Level In 12 Weeks

CONNECTICUT — The daily coronavirus positivity rate in Connecticut has jumped to its highest level in 12 weeks, according to data released Tuesday afternoon by the state Department of Public Health.

The current rate is 4.31 percent, the highest daily COVID-19 infection level reported by DPH since Aug. 31, when the number spiked at 4.65 percent.

Gov. Ned Lamont has said that the coronavirus positivity rate, along with the current number of hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 patients in Connecticut, are the key metrics health officials monitor to determine the status of their battle against the pandemic.

The positivity rate is a function of newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 and the number of tests taken in the past 24 hours. DPH confirmed 544 cases overnight, out of 12,617 tests taken, which yielded the 4.31 percent rate. The rate reported Tuesday is 1.42 percent over Monday's score.

Hospitalizations rose five beds overnight. Two hundred forty-three patients are currently hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19; of those 68 (28 percent) are fully vaccinated.

Most of those hospitalized (72) are in Hartford County.

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