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Sunday COVID-19 Summary: Westport Tests Slowing, Vaccines Increasing

This summary includes the total cases, deaths, vaccines, 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 03/04/21:

COVID-19 Cases

Westport:

  • 1,438 positive or probable cases (total) +38 from last week

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

  • 49,820 tests (total) +1,628 from last week

Fairfield County:

  • 81,783 80,243 positive or probable cases (total) +1,540 from last week

  • 2,074 Deaths (total) +23 from last week

  • 118 currently hospitalized; -22 from last week (as of 03/04/21)

Connecticut:

  • 285,330 positive or probable cases +5,384 from last week(total)

  • 7,622 deaths + 82 from last week (total)

  • 451 currently hospitalized - 23 from last week (as of 03/04/21)

State Daily Test Positivity:

  • 1.84% of COVID-19 tests administered came back positive (on 02/25/21)

  • DOWN from 2.22% on 02/25/21

Westport Vaccine Coverage:

Data Current as of: 03/04/2021

All Ages (est. 28,491 residents)

  • First Dose Coverage: 17.7% vaccinated [+2.43% from last week]

  • First Dose Count: 5,046 [+695 from last week]

Ages 65-74 (est. 2,472 residents)

  • First Dose Coverage: 75% vaccinated

Ages 75+ (est. 2,132 residents)

  • First Dose Coverage: 81% vaccinated

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