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In the latest update on Thursday, May 5, the state Department of Public Health reported 18 more COVID-19-related deaths, bringing the total up to 10,858 since March 2020.
In the past seven days, there have been more than 62,000 COVID-19 PCR and NAAT tests administered in Connecticut, according to health officials, resulting in 6,420 laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus for a 10.35 percent positivity rate, up slightly from the previous day.
Last week, the average seven-day positive infection rate was below 7 percent.
No new COVID-19 patients were admitted or discharged from Connecticut hospitals as the number being treated sits at 233 statewide.
Since the pandemic began, more than 14.1 million COVID-19 tests have been administered in Connecticut, resulting in a total of 827,243 confirmed cases.
A breakdown of which populations have received the most vaccines, by age group on May 5:
- 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.
The latest breakdown of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in Connecticut since the beginning of the pandemic, by county:
- Fairfield: 210,120 (2,721 deaths);
- New Haven: 201,354 (2,825);
- Hartford: 182,983 (3,135);
- New London: 56,880 (659);
- Litchfield: 32,799 (459);
- Middlesex: 29,117 (480);
- Windham: 26,234 (304);
- Tolland: 21,361 (274);
- Unknown: 2,301 (1).
A complete list of cases, by communities, can be found here by clicking and scrolling down.
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