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In the latest update on Thursday, May 12, the state Department of Public Health reported 25 more COVID-19-related deaths, bringing the total up to 10,883 since March 2020.
In the past seven days, there have been more than 72,000 COVID-19 PCR and NAAT tests administered in Connecticut, according to health officials, resulting in 9,606 laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus for an average seven-day positivity percent of 13.24 percent positivity rate, up slightly from the previous day.
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said that there have been 58 new COVID-19 patients admitted to Connecticut hospitals in the past week, leaving 291 being treated for the virus statewide.
Since the pandemic began, more than 14.22 million COVID-19 tests have been administered in Connecticut, resulting in a total of 841,365 confirmed cases.
A breakdown of which populations have received the most vaccines, by age group on May 12:
- 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: 213,009 (2,725 deaths);
- New Haven: 204,406 (2,831);
- Hartford: 186,141 (3,144);
- New London: 57,803 (660);
- Litchfield: 33,257 (462);
- Middlesex: 29,817 (481);
- Windham: 26,526 (305);
- Tolland: 21,774 (274);
- Unknown: 2,368 (1).
A complete list of cases, by communities, can be found here by clicking and scrolling down.
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