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In the latest update provided by the state Department of Health on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 28,312 COVID-19 tests were administered in Connecticut in the past 24 hours, resulting in 6,751 laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus for a 23.85 percent daily positivity rate.
The positive infection rate is up slightly from the weekend, which had a 23.68 positive infection rate between Friday, Jan. 7 and Monday, Jan. 10.
Thirty-one new COVID-19 patients were admitted to Connecticut hospitals, bringing the total being treated for the virus up to 1,920 amid the post-holiday surge of new cases.
Of the 1,920 hospitalized COVID-19 cases, the Department of Public Health noted that 1,292 (67.3 percent) were not fully vaccinated.
Officials said that unvaccinated persons had a 3.3-times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 compared to an unvaccinated person. Unvaccinated people also had a 17.2-times greater risk of dying from the virus compared to vaccinated individuals.
Since the pandemic began, there have been more than 13.92 million COVID-19 tests administered in Connecticut, resulting in a total of 611,867 cases since March 2020, including more than 9,000 fatal infections.
A breakdown of which populations have received the most vaccines, by age group according to the latest update from the Department of Public Health:
- 65+: >95 percent
- 55-64: >95 percent;
- 45-54: 87 percent;
- 35-44: 89 percent;
- 25-34: 82 percent;
- 18-24: 76 percent;
- 16-17: 82 percent;
- 12-15: 74 percent;
- 5-11: 32 percent.
The latest breakdown of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in Connecticut since March 2020, by county, on Jan. 11:
- Fairfield: 169,549 (2,402 deaths);
- New Haven: 159,375 (2,403);
- Hartford: 146,523 (2,747);
- New London: 42,381 (539);
- Litchfield: 26,013 (379);
- Middlesex: 21,873 (429);
- Windham: 20,510 (257);
- Tolland: 16,614 (219).
A complete list of cases, by communities, can be found here by clicking and scrolling down.
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