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In recent weeks, Connecticut has seen the number of new cases continue to rise as the average positive COVID-19 infection rate hit 10.32 percent over the past week.
In the past seven days, there have been more than 60,000 COVID-19 PCR and NAAT tests administered in Connecticut, according to the state Department of Public Health, resulting in 6,198 laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus.
Last week, the average seven-day positive infection rate was below 7 percent.
Thirty-five more COVID-19 patients were administered to Connecticut hospitals in the past seven days, bringing the total being treated to 245 across the state.
Since the pandemic began, more than 14.1 million COVID-19 tests have been administered in Connecticut, resulting in a total of 825,711 confirmed cases.
The latest breakdown of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in Connecticut since the beginning of the pandemic, by county, according to the Department of Public Health on Wednesday, May 4:
- Fairfield: 209,878 (2,720 deaths);
- New Haven: 201,134 (2,824);
- Hartford: 182,657 (3,135);
- New London: 56,816 (659);
- Litchfield: 32,744 (458);
- Middlesex: 29,057 (480);
- Windham: 26,195 (304);
- Tolland: 21,321 (274);
- Unknown: 2,295.
A breakdown of which populations have received the most vaccines, by age group, according to the most recent update from the Department of Public Health:
- 65+: >95 percent
- 55-64: >95 percent;
- 35-44: 94 percent;
- 45-54: 91 percent;
- 25-34: 90 percent;
- 16-17: 88 percent;
- 18-24: 85 percent;
- 12-15: 82 percent;
- 5-11: 49 percent.
A complete list of cases, by communities, can be found here by clicking and scrolling down.
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