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Over the weekend beginning on Friday, Jan. 7, there were 132,606 COVID-19 tests administered in Connecticut, resulting in 31,405 laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus for a positivity rate of 23.68 percent over the three days.
Seventy-nine more COVID-19 patients were admitted into Connecticut hospitals as the total number being treated rose to 1,889.
Of the 1,889 hospitalized COVID-19 cases, the Department of Public Health noted that 1,287 (68.1 percent) were not fully vaccinated.
Officials said that unvaccinated persons had a 3.3-times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 compared to an unvaccinated person. Unvaccinated people also had a 17.2-times greater risk of dying from the virus compared to vaccinated individuals.
Since the pandemic began, there have been more than 13.89 million COVID-19 tests administered in Connecticut, resulting in a total of 605,116 cases since March 2020, including more than 9,000 fatal infections.
A breakdown of which populations have received the most vaccines, by age group on Monday, Jan. 10:
- 65+: >95 percent
- 55-64: >95 percent;
- 45-54: 87 percent;
- 35-44: 89 percent;
- 25-34: 82 percent;
- 18-24: 76 percent;
- 16-17: 82 percent;
- 12-15: 74 percent;
- 5-11: 32 percent.
The latest breakdown of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in Connecticut since March 2020, by county:
- Fairfield: 159,711 (2,402 deaths);
- New Haven: 149,587 (2,403);
- Hartford: 141,111 (2,747);
- New London: 40,016 (539);
- Litchfield: 25,012 (379);
- Middlesex: 20,976 (429);
- Windham: 19,470 (257);
- Tolland: 16,125 (219).
A complete list of cases, by communities, can be found here by clicking and scrolling down.
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