The number of Connecticut municipalities classified at the state”™s “red alert” level ”“ the highest of Connecticut”™s four Covid-19 alert levels ”“ now stands at 145, or about 81%, as the coronavirus continues its rebound nationwide.
According to the latest data from the Connecticut Department of Public Health, there have now been 99,187 positive cases detected here, out of nearly 2.9 million tests conducted. The positivity rate stands at 6.48%.
Statewide hospitalizations stand at 840, and there have been 4,805 confirmed Covid-related deaths. In Fairfield County, 248 people are in hospitals, and there have been 1,142 deaths.
Municipalities at red alert are:
- Andover*
- Ansonia
- Ashford*
- Beacon Falls
- Berlin
- Bethany*
- Bethel
- Bethlehem
- Bloomfield
- Bozrah
- Branford
- Bridgeport
- Bristol
- Brookfield
- Brooklyn
- Burlington*
- Canterbury*
- Chaplin
- Cheshire
- Chester*
- Clinton
- Colchester*
- Coventry*
- Cromwell
- Danbury
- Darien*
- Deep River
- Derby
- Durham
- East Granby
- East Haddam*
- East Hampton
- East Hartford
- East Haven
- East Lyme*
- East Windsor
- Easton
- Enfield*
- Essex
- Fairfield
- Farmington*
- Franklin
- Glastonbury*
- Goshen
- Greenwich
- Griswold
- Groton
- Guilford*
- Haddam*
- Hamden
- Hampton
- Hartford
- Harwinton*
- Hebron*
- Kent*
- Killingly
- Killingworth
- Lebanon*
- Ledyard
- Lisbon*
- Litchfield*
- Madison*
- Manchester
- Mansfield*
- Marlborough*
- Meriden
- Middlebury
- Middlefield
- Middletown
- Milford
- Monroe
- Montville*
- Morris*
- Naugatuck
- New Britain
- New Canaan
- New Fairfield
- New Hartford*
- New Haven
- New London
- New Milford
- Newington
- Newtown
- North Branford
- North Canaan*
- North Haven
- North Stonington
- Norwalk
- Norwich
- Old Lyme*
- Old Saybrook*
- Orange
- Oxford
- Plainfield
- Plainville
- Plymouth
- Pomfret*
- Portland
- Preston
- Prospect
- Putnam*
- Redding
- Ridgefield*
- Rocky Hill
- Roxbury*
- Salem*
- Salisbury*
- Seymour
- Shelton
- Sherman
- Somers*
- South Windsor*
- Southbury
- Southington
- Sprague
- Stamford
- Sterling*
- Stonington*
- Stratford
- Suffield*
- Thomaston
- Tolland
- Torrington
- Trumbull
- Vernon*
- Wallingford
- Washington
- Waterbury
- Waterford
- Watertown
- West Hartford
- West Haven
- Westbrook
- Weston
- Westport
- Wethersfield
- Willington
- Wilton
- Windham
- Windsor
- Windsor Locks
- Wolcott
- Woodbridge*
- Woodbury
- Woodstock*
*Newly added to the red-level alert list this week
There are no municipalities in the state that were in the red zone last week and were downgraded to a lower alert level this week.
The red zone indicates municipalities that have an average daily Covid-19 case rate over the last two weeks of greater than 15 per 100,000 population. The orange zone indicates those that have case rates between 10 to 14 cases per 100,000 population. The yellow zone indicates municipalities that have case rates between 5 and 9 per 100,000 population, and those indicated in gray have case rates lower than five per 100,000 population.
