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Covid-19: Positivity Rate Stays Above 13 Percent In CT, 25 New Deaths Reported
The positive COVID-19 infection rate continues to rise in Connecticut, which reported more than two dozen new deaths in the past week.
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 slig…