CT Coronavirus Positivity Rate Drops Below 20%

CONNECTICUT — Coronavirus-related hospitalizations continued their downward trajectory for the second straight day in Connecticut.

After an unrelenting three-month ascent that threatened to break the early-pandemic record for COVID-19-hospitalizations set in April 2020, the number of beds filled with coronavirus patients in Connecticut receded further on Friday. The state Department of Public Health reported the number has dropped to 1,895, down 22 beds overnight.

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Of those hospitalized in Connecticut, about one-third are fully vaccinated.

The highest number of the hospitalized —626 — are in New Haven County.

COVID-19 infections in the state have dropped nearly another percentage point overnight, to 19.35 percent, according to the latest DPH data.

The daily coronavirus positivity rate is a function of the number of tests compared to the number of cases confirmed positive each day. Overnight, 8,783 positive cases were logged, out of 45,398 tests taken. The numbers of tests and cases confirmed do not include those taken with at-home self-test kits.

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Instructions on how to get COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters in Connecticut are available online, as is a list of walk-up clinics sponsored by DPH.