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Covid-19: Positivity Rate Stays Above 10 Percent In CT, 18 New Deaths Reported
The positive COVID-19 infection rate continues to rise in Connecticut, which reported nearly two dozen new deaths in the past week.
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 av…
