COVID-19

A federal judge in Louisiana is refusing to end pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border. The judge on Friday blocked a plan by President Joe Biden’s administration to lift the restrictions next Monday. Migrants have been expelled more than 1.9 million times since March 2020 under federal Title 42 authority. The provision denies migrants a chance...

Connecticut’s 7-day rolling COVID-19 positivity rate has risen to 14%. Wednesday’s positivity rate was 13.76% According to Governor Ned Lamont’s office, 69,634 tests have been reported since last Thursday, and 9,751 were positive. There are 369 people hospitalized with COVID-19 across the state. According to officials, there has been a total of 10,922 COVID-19 associated deaths in Connecticut, an additional…

During a week dedicated to celebrating nurses, Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury held a tree-planting ceremony to honor their frontline workers. The theme was rooted in strength, and it recognized the resilience of their nursing staff during what’s been a very difficult couple of years for the health care industry. Hospital leadership, nurses and local dignitaries gathered Friday afternoon...

Connecticut’s seven-day rolling COVID-19 positivity rate was 13.76% Wednesday, according to the state Department of Public Health. This is slightly up from Tuesday, as the percentage approaches 14%. Hospitalizations have gone up 45 in the past week, bringing the total to 365. Of the 73,339 reported tests over the past week, 10,095 were positive, according to state data. The most…

White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha warned Wednesday that without additional funding from Congress, the virus would cause “unnecessary loss of life” in the fall and winter, when the U.S. runs out of treatments and tests.

Connecticut’s 7-day rolling COVID-19 positivity rate was 13.41% Tuesday, according to the state Department of Public Health. That is up slightly from Monday’s rate. Of the 76,892 reported tests over the past week, 10,313 were positive, according to the data. There are currently 361 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Connecticut.

Connecticut’s 7-day rolling COVID-19 positivity rate has decreased to 13.05%. On Friday, the positivity rate was 13.71%. According to Governor Ned Lamont’s office, 84,626 tests have been reported in the last week, and 11,044 were positive. There are 331 patients hospitalized across the state with COVID-19. For a breakdown of COVID-19 information, click here.

Connecticut’s 7-day rolling COVID-19 positivity rate has risen to 13.71 percent. Experts advise people to still take precautions.

The state of Connecticut released new data showing weekly COVID-19 cases at each school in the state. According to the data, some schools are even seeing more than a dozen new COVID-19 cases per week. Others are seeing close to none. The following data shows new cases reported between Thursday and Wednesday. You can search for schools in your town…

Connecticut’s 7-day rolling COVID-19 positivity rate is almost at 14%. On Friday the positivity rate stands at 13.71%, up from Thursday’s 13.24%. According to Governor Ned Lamont’s office, 76,293 tests have been reported, and 10,459 were positive. There are 323 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 throughout the state. Of the 323 people hospitalized, 102 (31.58%) are not fully vaccinated, according to…

North Korea said six people died and hundreds of thousands of others fell ill amid an explosive spread of fever across the nation, a day after it acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak in a largely unvaccinated population for the first time since the pandemic began.

Connecticut’s 7-day rolling COVID-19 positivity rate has risen to 13.24%. Wednesday’s positivity rate was 13.01%. According to Governor Ned Lamont’s office, 72,531 tests have been reported in the last week, and 9,606 were positive. There are 291 patients with COVID-19 throughout the state. Of those 291 people, 102 (35.05%) are not fully vaccinated. According to officials, there have been 10,883…

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced Thursday that the state has reached a $56 million settlement with the families in the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020. “The COVID-19 outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home was a terrible tragedy,” Baker said in a statement. “While we know nothing can bring back those who were lost, we hope…

On Wednesday, the state’s COVID-19 test positivity rate jumped into the teens and hospitalizations are also on the rise.

On Wednesday, the state’s COVID-19 test positivity rate jumped into the teens and hospitalizations are also on the rise. But the numbers are not as straightforward as they used to be. Still, experts say the trends seem to suggest there’s a lot of COVID-19 spreading in the state. “I think it’s a little difficult to know exactly where we...

It is National Nurses Week and frontline workers at Hartford HealthCare got a heartfelt thank you Wednesday afternoon. The health care system treated them to a special concert by country singer Jordan Oaks right outside of the hospital in downtown Hartford. For many of the first responders, this recognition of their strenuous work means a great deal. Oaks played to…

Country star Jordan Oaks played for the frontline workers, while service dogs were on hand to offer reprieve.

The wife of the innocent bystander who was shot and killed on Zion Street in Hartford Tuesday had just recovered from COVID-19 and was out getting a hot dog for lunch, according to his wife.

Connecticut’s seven-day rolling COVID-19 positivity rate is now over 13%. The average percentage of positive tests has steadily risen over the past few days. On Wednesday, the positivity rate was 12.39% and the day before that, it was at 11.3%. Over the last seven days, 55 more people have been hospitalized with the virus, brining the cumulative total to 300,…

Renée Coleman-Mitchell, the former commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health, is suing her former employer for alleged violations of her civil rights. Coleman-Mitchell was fired from her position as commissioner in May 2020. A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Connecticut Monday alleges Coleman-Mitchell brought her concerns about COVID-19 to Gov. Ned Lamont during the...