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CT Next Hot Spot For Coronavirus: White House Official
Connecticut health officials released new town-by-town coronavirus cases, which are nearing 4,000. A total of 112 have died.
CONNECTICUT — Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus virus task force coordinator, said at a news conference Thursday evening that Connecticut is expected to be one of the next hot spots for the new coronavirus.
New York and New Jersey are already considered hot spots, as 35 percent of coronavirus tests have come back positive, according to Bloomberg News.
"Michigan, Connecticut, Indiana, Georgia, Illinois -- that should tell you where the next hot spots are coming -- are at 15% (for positive tests)," Birx said, according to Bloomberg. "And then Colorado, D.C., Rhode Island and Massachusetts are at 13%."
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A state is considered a hot spot based on the percentage of positive tests.
The latest coronavirus numbers for Connecticut are 112 deaths, 3,824 positive cases and 827 people hospitalized.
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Of the state's 3,824 positive cases, Stamford has 508, Norwalk 330, Danbury 231, Greenwich 170, New Haven 133, Westport 125, Bridgeport 115, and Waterbury 105. (To sign up for free, local breaking news alerts from more than 100 Connecticut communities, click here.)
Here are the latest town-by-town number of positive cases:
| Andover 0 |
| Ansonia 25 |
| Ashford 4 |
| Avon 11 |
| Barkhamsted 1 |
| Beacon Falls 8 |
| Berlin 14 |
| Bethany 1 |
| Bethel 39 |
| Bethlehem 4 |
| Bloomfield 20 |
| Bolton 3 |
| Bozrah 1 |
| Branford 23 |
| Bridgeport 115 |
| Bridgewater 3 |
| Bristol 18 |
| Brookfield 59 |
| Brooklyn 0 |
| Burlington 5 |
| Canaan 0 |
| Canterbury 0 |
| Canton 2 |
| Chaplin 0 |
| Cheshire 20 |
| Chester 1 |
| Clinton 7 |
| Colchester 3 |
| Colebrook 0 |
| Columbia 2 |
| Cornwall 1 |
| Coventry 4 |
| Cromwell 7 |
| Danbury 231 |
| Darien 77 |
| Deep River 4 |
| Derby 13 |
| Durham 3 |
| East Granby 2 |
| East Haddam 2 |
| East Hampton 4 |
| East Hartford 26 |
| East Haven 17 |
| East Lyme 2 |
| East Windsor 2 |
| Eastford 1 |
| Easton 5 |
| Ellington 4 |
| Enfield 38 |
| Essex 2 |
| Fairfield 51 |
| Farmington 16 |
| Franklin 1 |
| Glastonbury 14 |
| Goshen 1 |
| Granby 1 |
| Greenwich 170Griswold 1 |
| Groton 2 |
| Guilford 5 |
| Haddam 1 |
| Hamden 55 |
| Hampton 0 |
| Hartford 90 |
| Hartland 0 |
| Harwinton 4 |
| Hebron 4 |
| Kent 5 |
| Killingly 2 |
| Killingworth 1 |
| Lebanon 2 |
| Ledyard 2 |
| Lisbon 2 |
| Litchfield 4 |
| Lyme 1 |
| Madison 12 |
| Manchester 36 |
| Mansfield 1 |
| Marlborough 3 |
| Meriden 31 |
| Middlebury 8 |
| Middlefield 2 |
| Middletown 29 |
| Milford 23 |
| Monroe 9 |
| Montville 2 |
| Morris 2 |
| Naugatuck 13 |
| New Britain 36 |
| New Canaan 51 |
| New Fairfield 32 |
| New Hartford 3 |
| New Haven 133 |
| New London 3 |
| New Milford 37 |
| Newington 28 |
| Newtown 33 |
| Norfolk 1 |
| North Branford 5 |
| North Canaan 1 |
| North Haven 10 |
| North Stonington 0 |
| Norwalk 330 |
| Norwich 2 |
| Old Lyme 1 |
| Old Saybrook 5 |
| Orange 8 |
| Oxford 13 |
| Plainfield 0 |
| Plainville 10 |
| Plymouth 3 |
| Pomfret 2 |
| Portland 4 |
| Preston 1Prospect 8 |
| Putnam 0 |
| Redding 16 |
| Ridgefield 78 |
| Rocky Hill 22 |
| Roxbury 3 |
| Salem 0 |
| Salisbury 3 |
| Scotland 0 |
| Seymour 17 |
| Sharon 4 |
| Shelton 59 |
| Sherman 4 |
| Simsbury 9 |
| Somers 6 |
| South Windsor 12 |
| Southbury 14 |
| Southington 27 |
| Sprague 0 |
| Stafford 19 |
| Stamford 508 |
| Sterling 0 |
| Stonington 2 |
| Stratford 38 |
| Suffield 18 |
| Thomaston 8 |
| Thompson 1 |
| Tolland 9 |
| Torrington 24 |
| Trumbull 22 |
| Union 0 |
| Vernon 14 |
| Voluntown 1 |
| Wallingford 18 |
| Warren 0 |
| Washington 10 |
| Waterbury 105 |
| Waterford 0 |
| Watertown 11 |
| West Hartford 24 |
| West Haven 50 |
| Westbrook 2 |
| Weston 29 |
| Westport 125 |
| Wethersfield 22 |
| Willington 1 |
| Wilton 51 |
| Winchester 2 |
| Windham 5 |
| Windsor 26 |
| Windsor Locks 7 |
| Wolcott 6 |
| Woodbridge 6 |
| Woodbury 6 |
| Woodstock 6 |
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