LYME/OLD LYME — Old Lyme’s COVID-19 case numbers increased by five in the report issued Friday afternoon (Jan. 15) by the Connecticut Department of Public Health (CT DPH) taking the cumulative total for the town since the pandemic began to 211.
On Friday, Jan. 8, the report issued by CT DPH that day gave Old Lyme’s cumulative total as 173, meaning that in the following week (1/8-1/15), 38 new cases were confirmed.
Lyme’s number was unchanged from the previous day, standing at a cumulative total of 66.
Asked his thoughts on the recent significant rise in COVID-19 cases in the town, Old Lyme First Selectman Timothy Griswold told LymeLine exclusively, “These troubling numbers are typical of what’s happening through the state and the country. The salient point is that we’ve been seeing it [the number of cases] gradually picking up, but now they’re really ramping up.”
He added, “You’ve had the holidays and now it’s incumbent on all of us to keep doing what we’re doing,” stressing, “We can’t let our guard down now.”
Referring to the expansion of the vaccine program, Griswold noted optimistically that with the combination of that and people continuing to be vigilant, “We can hopefully begin to get the curve down.”