Geraldo Reyes Jr

Due to an increase and uptick in COVID-19 positivity rates, Waterbury remains on the Red alert list.

For several additional charts and tables containing more data groups, including a town-by-town breakdown of positive cases in each municipality and a breakdown of cases and deaths among age groups, click here.

Positivity for the Future

“These are very trying times, as the nation is seeing a huge uptick in record numbers of COVID cases, we need to be extra vigilant. Two states have already seen over 1 million cases, in Connecticut we have done a decent job in maintaining safer levels, but we are not out of harms way. The second phase is just starting up, we all have a loved one who have been ill or worse have passed due to this terrible pandemic. This is just an inconvenience and we should be very careful with our love ones. The worst end of any of the stories is death due to COVID-19, please make sure you do everything possible to be careful and be protective of the young and elderly, especially those that are compromised. I ask that we collectively push forward as one nation to engage and solve this dilemma, and as I said it’s only an inconvenience!” - State Rep. Geraldo Reyes

Weekly update of the Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 Alert Map: One-hundred municipalities now in red

The Connecticut Department of Public Health released its weekly COVID-19 Alert Map, which indicates that 100 cities and towns in Connecticut are now in the red zone alert level, the highest of the state’s four alert levels. They are:

• Ansonia
• Beacon Falls*
• Berlin
• Bethel
• Bethlehem
• Bloomfield*
• Bozrah
• Branford*
• Bridgeport
• Bristol
• Brookfield
• Brooklyn
• Chaplin
• Cheshire*
• Clinton
• Cromwell*
• Danbury
• Deep River*
• Derby
• Durham*
• East Granby
• East Hampton
• East Hartford
• East Haven
• East Windsor
• Easton
• Essex*
• Fairfield*
• Franklin
• Goshen*
• Greenwich*
• Griswold
• Groton
• Hamden
• Hampton
• Hartford
• Killingly
• Killingworth*
• Ledyard
• Manchester*
• Meriden
• Middlebury
• Middlefield
• Middletown
• Milford*
• Monroe
• Naugatuck
• New Britain
• New Canaan*
• New Fairfield*
• New Haven
• New London
• New Milford*
• Newington
• Newtown*
• North Branford
• North Haven
• North Stonington
• Norwalk
• Norwich
• Orange*
• Oxford*
• Plainfield
• Plainville
• Plymouth
• Portland*
• Preston*
• Prospect
• Redding*
• Rocky Hill*
• Seymour
• Shelton
• Sherman*
• Southbury*
• Southington
• Sprague
• Stamford
• Stratford
• Thomaston
• Tolland
• Torrington*
• Trumbull*
• Wallingford
• Washington*
• Waterbury
• Waterford
• Watertown
• West Hartford*
• West Haven
• Westbrook*
• Weston*
• Westport*
• Wethersfield
• Willington*
• Wilton*
• Windham
• Windsor
• Windsor Locks*
• Wolcott
• Woodbury

*Newly added to the red-level alert list this week

The towns of Ellington, Montville, North Canaan, Putnam, and Woodbridge were in the red zone last week and have been 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.

The weekly alert map is also accompanied by a chart that provides guidance on recommended actions based on the alert levels for individual residents; institutions such as schools, houses of worship, and community organizations; as well as municipal leaders and local health directors.

The Department of Public Health will be working with individual cities and towns in the higher-alert levels, including their local health departments, to provide community resources and help make community-level decisions.

The COVID-19 Alert Map is updated every Thursday around 4:00 p.m. and can be found in the Data Tracker page of the state’s coronavirus website.

Governor Launches COVID Alert CT App

Yesterday, Governor Lamont announced he is launching COVID Alert CT, an exposure notification app that can let you know if you have been exposed to COVID-19 – all without disclosing any of your personal information. This app is only as successful as the number of people who download it. That’s why it’s critical that as many people as possible make sure the app is on their phone – especially in these first few days, and we need your support. Please share this information with your communities.

The app is available in multiple languages, and is available both on Android and iPhone.

Find out more, and learn how to download, or set up the app here.

Holiday Guidance

You may have seen the newly released video with information encouraging families to be safe this holiday season, and we’d appreciate if you shared it. You can find the video here.

This video is available in a 15-second length and in Spanish, with a variety of other resources here.

If you have any further questions about how to safely celebrate this holiday season, please visit the state's recommendations on the coronavirus response website.

Weekly update to Connecticut’s travel advisory: Maine and New Hampshire added to list, no locations removed

The State of Connecticut’s travel advisory – which directs incoming travelers from states with a significant community spread of COVID-19 to self-quarantine for a 14-day period – was updated and now includes the states of Maine and New Hampshire on the list of impacted locations. No locations were removed from the list this week. The list is updated once per week every Tuesday.

The full list of impacted locations under the travel advisory includes:

1. Alabama
2. Alaska
3. Arizona
4. Arkansas
5. California
6. Colorado
7. Delaware
8. Florida
9. Georgia
10. Guam
11. Idaho
12. Illinois
13. Indiana
14. Iowa
15. Kansas
16. Kentucky
17. Louisiana
18. Maine
19. Maryland
20. Massachusetts
21. Michigan
22. Minnesota
23. Mississippi
24. Missouri
25. Montana
26. Nebraska
27. Nevada
28. New Hampshire
29. New Mexico
30. North Carolina
31. North Dakota
32. Ohio
33. Oklahoma
34. Oregon
35. Pennsylvania
36. Puerto Rico
37. South Carolina
38. South Dakota
39. Tennessee
40. Texas
41. Utah
42. Virginia
43. Washington
44. West Virginia
45. Wisconsin
46. Wyoming

The requirement to quarantine applies to any person traveling into Connecticut from one of the impacted locations. Impacted locations include those other than the neighboring states of New York, New Jersey, or Rhode Island that have a positive case rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents or higher than a 10 percent test positivity rate over a 7-day rolling average, and countries for which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a Level 3 Travel Health Notice.

Anyone arriving to Connecticut from any of the impacted locations is required to complete a travel health form upon their arrival. The form can be filled out online.

For the most up-to-date information on the regional travel advisory, including an extensive list of frequently asked questions.