MIAMI, FLORIDA – JULY 23: Health care workers direct people to use a nasal swab for a self administered test at the new federally funded COVID-19 testing site at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium on July 23, 2020 in Miami, Florida. Vice Admiral Jerome Adams, the U.S. Surgeon General, visited the site, as the state of Florida experiences a spike in coronavirus cases, to encourage people to wear a mask and take other precautions to fight the pandemic. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton said there are seven new COVID-19 cases in the city since Friday.
This comes just a day after the Connecticut Department of Public Health declared a COVID-19 alert in Danbury as a result of a recent spike in cases.
The city reported no new coronavirus-related deaths, Boughton said.
Students at Western Connecticut State University will not be allowed to return to university residence halls for at least two weeks, President Dr. John B. Clark said in a statement on Saturday.
