LYME/OLD LYME —The Daily Data Report for Connecticut issued Monday, Aug. 2, by the Connecticut Department of Public Health (CT-DPH) for data as at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 1, shows that Old Lyme has reported three new, confirmed COVID-19 cases.
There are no new cases in Lyme.
This takes Old Lyme’s cumulative total of confirmed cases to 354, while Lyme’s holds at 112.
Positivity Rates
Yesterday, Monday, Aug. 2, Governor Lamont announced that the state’s COVID-19 positivity rate broke the notional 3 percent line for the first time in months, rising to 3.18. He noted that 355,580 COVID-19 cases had been reported since the beginning of the pandemic, which is up 1,245 since Friday and out of 39,189 tests administered, 1,245 came back positive.
On July 2, precisely one month ago and in stark contrast to yesterday’s numbers, Gov. Lamont announced that the state’s positivity rate was 0.59 percent.
Hugh McQuaid states in his article titled, Lamont Advises ‘Common Sense’ on Indoor Masking as Infection Rate Rises to 3%, which was published Aug. 2 on CTNewsJunkie, that, “virus transmission rates [are] high enough in most of Connecticut to meet the Centers for Disease Control recommendation that vaccinated people wear masks indoors in public.”
Despite this news, Gov. Lamont, “… continued to back voluntary public masking guidelines over renewed state mandates and asked for more time to decide whether masks would be required in schools.”
Fatalities Due to COVID-19 in Lyme, Old Lyme
There is no change in the number of fatalities reported in either Lyme (0) or Old Lyme (3).
The first two fatalities from Old Lyme, which were reported in 2020, were a 61-year-old female and an 82-year-old male. Details of the third, which was reported in 2021, have not been made available.
Visit this link for our July 29 update, which includes statewide data.