Coronavirus Hamden: 3 Residents Test Positive

HAMDEN, CT — Three Hamden residents have tested positive for the new coronavirus, officials confirmed in an update Tuesday night. The town’s first confirmed case was announced on Monday. Mayor Curt Balzano Leng said Monday that while that was the town’s first confirmed case, officials have functioning under the presumption that was in Hamden for weeks and there are many more cases.

The three confirmed cases equate to possibly 300 to 600 untested cases, according to a post on the town’s Facebook page.

“The Greater New Haven area is now the second largest area of Connecticut with 89 positive cases,” officials wrote in a post on Facebook. “Using the expert’s math, that means a possibility of 20,000, untested cases in our area. The Governor and the Mayor are both imploring people to absolutely stay home and use common sense.

“Please limit contact with any groups, not just groups with certain number limits. This is especially true of our population over 70.”

Leng is also asking any business that have “access or ownership of protective equipment including masks, gloves, gowns, ventilators, or anything else that may be helpful to our hospital, public safety, or regular town workers, please contact him a cleng@hamden.com.”

“Please help to slow, if not stop this virus by staying home and away from others,” officials wrote in the post on Facebook.

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