CT Coronavirus Positivity Rate Holds Steady

CONNECTICUT — Recent COVID-19 data from the state Department of Public Health indicates that Connecticut is "flattening the curve," Gov. Ned Lamont said on Friday.

The numbers continued to hold on Monday, as the weekend positivity rate came in at 3.10 percent, and there were two new hospitalizations associated with the virus, bringing that total to 380. DPH reported 1,361 more cases since Friday, over 43,879 tests.

Over the past two weeks, the state's daily positivity rate has averaged 3.45 percent.

Lamont compared infection and hospitality rates in the Nutmeg State to those in southern states, telling reporters he was "pleased that Connecticut, because we're 84 percent vaccinated, is relatively flat."

As of Monday, 65.9 percent of Connecticut residents were fully vaccinated, and 73.5 percent had received at least their first jab, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prveention.

Lamont made his remarks as schools prepared to reopen across the state amid a storm of controversy caused by continuation of the state mask mandate for schoolchildren. On Thursday, parents protesting the mandate interrupted an education roundtable discussion attended by the governor and state health and education officials in Cheshire.

On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added one more Connecticut county to its most severe transmission tier. The CDC now rates Tolland as a "high transmission" county, joining Fairfield, Hartford, Litchfield, New Haven, New London and Middlesex Counties. In Connecticut, only Windham County is still classified as having a lower, "substantial transmission." The CDC recommends that people in these "high transmission" counties wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status.

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