Good News: Essex Has Joined Deep River In The Orange Zone

ESSEX, DEEP RIVER, CT — Looks as though our small tri-town community is listening to the recommendations, following the rules and doing all we can to combat additional Covid-19 positive cases, as two of our three towns are among the few in the state that are currently in the orange zone for positive Covid-19 cases.

The Connecticut Department of Public Health today released its weekly COVID-19 Alert Map, which indicates that 138 of 169 towns and cities in Connecticut are currently in the red zone alert level, the highest of the state’s four alert levels.

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The only municipalities in the state that are not in the red zone this week are:

• Bethany, Canton, Deep River, Essex, Farmington, Goshen, Granby, Haddam, Hebron, Kent, Lebanon, New Hartford, Old Lyme, Portland, Sherman, Southbury, and Winchester, all of which are in the orange alert level;
• Pomfret, Redding, Salisbury, and Woodbury, all of which are in the yellow alert level; and
• Barkhamsted, Bridgewater, Canaan, Cornwall, Eastford, Franklin, Hartland, Norfolk, Scotland, and Warren, all of which are in the gray alert level.

The color-coded zones include:

• Red: Indicates case rates over the last two weeks of greater than 15 per 100,000 population
• Orange: Indicates case rates between 10 to 14 cases per 100,000 population
• Yellow: Indicates case rates between 5 and 9 per 100,000 population
• Gray: Indicates case rates lower than five per 100,000 population

Congratulations Essex and Deep River!