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Sunday COVID-19 Summary: State Positivity Rates, Hospitalizations Down; Westport Numbers Remain Similar

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 01/28/21:

Westport:

  • 1,241 positive or probable cases (total) +69 from last week

  • 26 deaths (total) +/- 0 from last week

  • 40,696 tests (total) +1,339 from last week

Fairfield County:

  • 72,026 positive or probable cases (total) +2,961 from last week

  • 1,982 Deaths (total) +46 from last week

  • 253 currently hospitalized; +3 from last week (as of 01/28/21)

Connecticut:

  • 250,023 positive or probable cases +12,208 from last week(total)

  • 7,046 deaths + 227 from last week (total)

  • 985 currently hospitalized - 113 from last week (as of 01/28/21)

State Daily Test Positivity:

  • 3.64% of COVID-19 tests administered came back positive (01/28/21)

  • DOWN from 4.93% on 01/21/21

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