As the State of Connecticut continues taking actions in response to the global spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Governor Ned Lamont provided the following updates as of 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, 2022:
Data updates on testing in Connecticut
The following is a summary of the day-to-day newly reported data on cases, deaths, and tests in Connecticut. It is important to note that these newly reported updates include data that occurred over the last several days to a week. All data in this report are preliminary, and data for previous dates will be updated as new reports are received and data errors are corrected.
|
Overall Summary |
Total |
Change Since Yesterday |
| COVID-19 Cases (confirmed and probable) |
729,354 |
+291 |
| COVID-19 Tests Reported (molecular and antigen) |
15,271,309 |
+16,300 |
| Daily Test Positivity |
— |
1.79% |
| Patients Currently Hospitalized with COVID-19 |
155 |
-7 |
|
Overall Summary |
Total |
Change Since Last Thursday |
| COVID-19 Associated Deaths* |
10,615 |
+100 |
*Data on COVID-19 deaths is updated once per week every Thursday.
Of the 155 patients currently hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, 67 (43.2%) are not fully vaccinated.
Compared to being vaccinated, being unvaccinated currently has the following relative risk:
- 3 times higher risk of being infected with COVID-19
- 52 times higher risk of dying from COVID-19
- 10 times higher risk of being hospitalized with COVID-19
County-by-county breakdown of current COVID-19 hospitalizations:
|
County |
Current COVID-19 Hospitalizations |
| Fairfield County |
39 |
| Hartford County |
37 |
| Litchfield County |
1 |
| Middlesex County |
4 |
| New Haven County |
57 |
| New London County |
16 |
| Tolland County |
1 |
| Windham County |
0 |
| Total |
155 |
For a series of interactive graphs and maps that provide additional data, including metrics related to age, gender, and race/ethnicity, as well as data broken down by every town and city in Connecticut, visit ct.gov/coronavirus and click the link that is labeled, “Data Tracker.”
Data updates on breakthrough cases in Connecticut
The Connecticut Department of Public Health is reporting that as of March 9, 2022, a total of 174,207 cases of COVID-19 among fully vaccinated persons in Connecticut have been identified. Of the approximately 2.7 million people in Connecticut who are fully vaccinated, 6.5% have contracted the virus.
For more data on breakthrough cases in Connecticut, see pages 6 through 10 of this week’s extended COVID-19 data report.
Data updates on vaccine administration in Connecticut
The following data was reported to the CT WiZ immunization information system as of March 8, 2022.
Total number of people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19:
|
Dose |
Total Administered |
| At least one dose |
3,016,418 |
| Fully vaccinated |
2,697,525 |
| Additional dose received |
1,439,636 |
Percent of people with at least one dose by age group:
- >95% of those over the age of 65
- >95% of those between 55-64
- 91% of those between 45-54
- 93% of those between 35-44
- 89% of those between 25-34
- 84% of those between 18-24
- 88% of those between 16-17
- 81% of those between 12-15
- 47% of those between 5-11
All Connecticut residents over the age of 5 are currently eligible to receive the vaccines. To locate a vaccination clinic, visit ct.gov/covidvaccine.
Data updates on variants in Connecticut
The following data contains the cumulative number of SARS-CoV-2 variants that have been identified among Connecticut residents as of today:
Variants of concern
- Delta: 16,281 cases
- Omicron: 10,151
Variants being monitored
- Alpha: 2,526 cases
- Beta: 23 cases
- Gamma: 137 cases
- Epsilon: 60 cases
- Zeta: 1 case
- Eta: 10 cases
- Iota: 718 cases
- Kappa: 2 cases
- B.1.617.3: 0 cases
- Mu: 84 cases
For more information on variants, see pages 11 and 12 of this week’s extended COVID-19 data report.
