CT Coronavirus Updates: Infection Rate Keeps Declining

Rich Scinto
Updated ·3 min read

CONNECTICUT — Connecticut continues to see a low positive rate among coronavirus test results. There were 191 positive coronavirus results out of 5,729 tests, for a rate of about 3 percent. Gov. Ned Lamont said the low rate was welcome news.

The state also saw 71 less net coronavirus hospitalizations Thursday, which brought the total hospitalization load to 816 patients.

Another 53 deaths were reported, which brought the total up to 3,582.

Here are the 24 hour change in hospitalizations by county: Fairfield 241 total and a decrease of 31; New Haven 301 total and a decrease of 25; Hartford 214 and a decrease of eight; Middlesex 28 and a decrease of five; New London 22 and a decrease of two; Litchfield 7 and Windham 3 both had no change and Tolland has zero cases.

County figures

County

Cases

Deaths

Fairfield County

14751

1180

Hartford County

9299

1133

Litchfield County

1303

121

Middlesex County

972

130

New Haven County

10663

874

New London County

903

73

Tolland County

787

55

Windham County

336

14

Pending address validation

194

2

Total

39208

3582

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Town figures

Town

Cases

Andover

10

Ansonia

248

Ashford

14

Avon

106

Barkhamsted

24

Beacon Falls

45

Berlin

136

Bethany

30

Bethel

240

Bethlehem

10

Bloomfield

436

Bolton

19

Bozrah

8

Branford

312

Bridgeport

3057

Bridgewater

6

Bristol

514

Brookfield

149

Brooklyn

18

Burlington

21

Canaan

0

Canterbury

11

Canton

78

Chaplin

3

Cheshire

169

Chester

45

Clinton

49

Colchester

32

Colebrook

2

Columbia

18

Cornwall

4

Coventry

35

Cromwell

98

Danbury

1639

Darien

198

Deep River

8

Derby

136

Durham

29

East Granby

8

East Haddam

12

East Hampton

40

East Hartford

706

East Haven

373

East Lyme

125

East Windsor

140

Eastford

8

Easton

31

Ellington

52

Enfield

403

Essex

20

Fairfield

543

Farmington

188

Franklin

3

Glastonbury

252

Goshen

8

Granby

20

Greenwich

764

Griswold

20

Groton

105

Guilford

93

Haddam

26

Hamden

890

Hampton

1

Hartford

2036

Hartland

6

Harwinton

27

Hebron

20

Kent

7

Killingly

26

Killingworth

12

Lebanon

24

Ledyard

19

Lisbon

5

Litchfield

35

Lyme

3

Madison

129

Manchester

572

Mansfield

27

Marlborough

51

Meriden

686

Middlebury

44

Middlefield

15

Middletown

507

Milford

590

Monroe

105

Montville

110

Morris

15

Naugatuck

339

New Britain

825

New Canaan

164

New Fairfield

106

New Hartford

23

New Haven

2284

New London

136

New Milford

257

Newington

327

Newtown

201

Norfolk

9

North Branford

80

North Canaan

5

North Haven

217

North Stonington

10

Norwalk

1928

Norwich

83

Old Lyme

16

Old Saybrook

32

Orange

113

Oxford

77

Plainfield

30

Plainville

133

Plymouth

64

Pomfret

13

Portland

56

Preston

10

Prospect

52

Putnam

24

Redding

68

Ridgefield

198

Rocky Hill

364

Roxbury

6

Salem

4

Salisbury

10

Scotland

0

Seymour

210

Sharon

32

Shelton

530

Sherman

14

Simsbury

107

Somers

280

South Windsor

133

Southbury

158

Southington

285

Sprague

3

Stafford

94

Stamford

3051

Sterling

2

Stonington

30

Stratford

737

Suffield

111

Thomaston

52

Thompson

29

Tolland

47

Torrington

458

Trumbull

495

Union

4

Vernon

170

Voluntown

9

Wallingford

409

Warren

4

Washington

19

Waterbury

1775

Waterford

148

Watertown

136

West Hartford

520

West Haven

986

Westbrook

23

Weston

61

Westport

273

Wethersfield

229

Willington

11

Wilton

199

Winchester

50

Windham

144

Windsor

495

Windsor Locks

97

Wolcott

93

Woodbridge

125

Woodbury

40

Woodstock

13

This article originally appeared on the Across Connecticut Patch