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Connecticut’s COVID-19 positivity rate is 12.07% over the last week and there have been an additional 34 COVID-19-associated deaths, according to the governor’s office. Gov. Ned Lamont’s office releases the information each Thursday and said there were 4,849 positive cases out of 40,165 tests over the last week. There are currently 325 patients with COVID-19 in a hospital, a net…

Connecticut’s seven-day rolling COVID-19 positivity rate slightly increased Tuesday and is above 7.5%. State data shows that the positivity rate currently stands at 7.69%, which is an increase of 0.12% since Monday. Gov. Ned Lamont’s office said there were 3,482 positive tests out of 45,261 in the last week and the number of people hospitalized is 282. The number of patients decreased…

Connecticut’s seven-day rolling COVID-19 positivity rate on Monday is below 8%. State data shows that the positivity rate currently stands at 7.57%, which is a decrease of 1.22% since Thursday. Gov. Ned Lamont office said there were 3,588 positive tests out of 47,420 in the last week and the number of people hospitalized is 265. The number of patients decreased by…

Connecticut’s seven-day rolling COVID-19 positivity rate on Thursday is below 9%. State data shows that the positivity rate currently stands at 8.79%, which is a decrease of 0.02% since Thursday. Gov. Ned Lamont office said there were 3,203 positive tests out of 36,424 in the last week and the number of people hospitalized is 259. The number of patients decreased…

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…

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,…

Connecticut’s 7-day rolling COVID-19 positivity rate is 7.6%. According to Gov. Ned Lamont’s office, there have been 10,826 total COVID-19-related deaths in the state, an additional 17 since last Thursday. Officials said 59,858 tests have been reported since last Thursday, and 4,547 were positive. There are 176 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Connecticut, an additional 37 since last Thursday. Of…

Connecticut’s daily COVID-19 positivity rate has remained below 10% since Friday and is continuing to decrease. According to Gov. Ned Lamont’s office, the positivity rate is now 7.33%, down since Friday’s 9.73%. Of the 45,449 tests reported since Friday, 3,330 were positive. According to officials, 1,051 patients are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, down 141 since Friday. Of the 1,051 patients…

Connecticut’s COVID-19 daily positivity rate continued its downward trend on Thursday.

Inflammation, stress, memory issues, and other symptoms of “long haul” COVID-19 are still impacting Fiona Lowenstein and Chimére Smith. Smith tells LX News she developed occipital neuralgia after contracting the virus in March 2020. “It almost feels like I have a rubber band around my head, actually 20 of them at any given time,” Smith said.

Gov. Ned Lamont announced Thursday that Connecticut is one of the five states with the lowest COVID-19 infection rates in the United States. The state’s positivity rate decreased to 13.29% and hospitalizations continue to go down, as well. With a decline of 72, there are now 1,733 total hospitalizations. This is the lowest the state has seen in a few…