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Westporter Attends Super Bowl LV in Tampa as Ambassador & Technology Manager

Westporter Joey Bairaktaris (r) stands with Jackson Mahomes (l) - little brother to Chiefs Quarterback Patrick Mahomes II - before today’s Super Bowl LV game began.

Bairaktaris, who works for Gillette Stadium’s New England Patriots Guest Services team, is at today’s game at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida working as an Ambassador and Technology Manager for Super Bowl LV. He may be one of the only Westporters at the stadium today with attendance numbers cut due to COVID-19.

Super Bowl LV will have the smallest attendance ever, according to NBC Sports, with only 25,000 attendees. Over 7,000 of those attendees are vaccinated front line workers who were awarded free tickets to the big game; all spectators were given hand sanitizer and are mandated to wear masks throughout the entire game.

Joey Bairaktaris is the triplet brother of Westport Local Press Executive Editor Jaime Bairaktaris.

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Sunday COVID-19 Summary: State, County, and Town Finally Trending Down

This summary includes the total cases, deaths, and current hospitalizations in our town, county, and state.

The State does not publish any data on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday - so this summary does not include any information collected on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.

Data from the past three days will be published cumulatively in tomorrow evening’s daily update.

All data comes from Connecticut Open Data portal. Numbers as of 02/04/21:

Westport:

  • 1,241 positive or probable cases (total) +59 from last week

  • 27 deaths (total) + 1 from last week

  • 42,403 tests (total) +1,707 from last week

Fairfield County:

  • 74,404 positive or probable cases (total) +2378 from last week

  • 1,947 Deaths (total)

  • 214 currently hospitalized; -39 from last week (as of 02/04/21)

Connecticut:

  • 259,372 positive or probable cases +9,349 from last week(total)

  • 7,214 deaths + 168 from last week (total)

  • 827 currently hospitalized - 158 from last week (as of 02/04/21)

State Daily Test Positivity:

  • 3.04% of COVID-19 tests administered came back positive (02/04/21)

  • DOWN from 3.64% on 01/28/21

The next update will be published tomorrow evening, and will include all data identified on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of this weekend.

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