Town-By-Town COVID-19 Numbers As Infection Rate Rises

CONNECTICUT — The daily coronavirus positivity rate — and number of hospitalizations for COVID-19 — took a spin northward on Friday

The daily positivity rate spiked back up, to 4.33 percent, the highest it has been since the end of August. That's on the basis of 1,544 confirmed new cases of COVID-19 reported by the Connecticut Department of Public Health overnight, after 36,572 tests.

Hospitalizations were down over the past week, but climbed seven to 332 beds in the past 24 hours, according to DPH. Of those, 27.7 percent had been fully vaccinated against the virus.

As of Thursday, the coronavirus death toll in Connecticut is 8,447.