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Over the weekend beginning on Friday, Jan. 28, there were 45,449 COVID-19 tests administered in Connecticut, resulting in 3,330 laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus for an overall positivity rate of 7.33 percent, the lowest of the year.
The previous low for 2022 was set at 9.73 percent twice last week, marking the only times Connecticut has seen a positivity rate in the single digits.
One hundred and forty-one more COVID-19 patients were discharged from Connecticut hospitals, bringing the total being treated down to 1,051, 568 (54 percent) of whom were not fully vaccinated.
According to the Department of Public Health, for the week beginning on Monday, Jan. 16, unvaccinated persons had a 3.1-times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 compared to an unvaccinated person. Unvaccinated people also had a 12.9-times greater risk of dying from the virus compared to vaccinated individuals.
More than 9,900 virus-related deaths have been reported in Connecticut since the beginning of the pandemic.
Connecticut has administered nearly 3 million first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday, Jan. 31, while more than 2.6 million have completed the vaccination progress.
Approximately 1.3 million COVID-19 booster shots have also been administered since they became available.
A breakdown of which populations have received the most vaccines, by age group according to the most recent update from the Department of Public Health:
- 65+: >95 percent
- 55-64: >95 percent;
- 45-54: 90 percent;
- 35-44: 92 percent;
- 25-34: 87 percent;
- 18-24: 82 percent;
- 16-17: 86 percent;
- 12-15: 79 percent;
- 5-11: 43 percent.
The latest breakdown of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in Connecticut since the beginning of the pandemic, by county, on Jan. 31:
- Fairfield: 192,393 (2,541 deaths);
- New Haven: 182,543 (2,590);
- Hartford: 168,647 (2,881);
- New London: 50,879 (587);
- Litchfield: 29,753 (412);
- Middlesex: 25,778 (451);
- Windham: 24,279 (274);
- Tolland: 19,125 (245);
- Unknown: 2,673 (4).
A complete list of cases, by communities, can be found here by clicking and scrolling down.
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