COVID-19 Update – Monday, May 17, 2021 – 345,639 cases

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NOTE: Reports are issued Mondays and Thursdays. 

Report Highlights

  • Middlebury had one more confirmed case and one fewer probable case for the four days from Wednesday, May 12, 2021, at 8:30 p.m. to Sunday, May 16, 2021, at 8:30 p.m.
  • The cumulative number of cases (confirmed and probable) in Middlebury remained at 714 in the latest report from state health officials.
  • Middlebury reported no new deaths from COVID-19; total deaths remain at 19.
  • In a May 13, 2021, report Middlebury’s rate of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 fell for the fourth time in a row. The rate decreased to 10.1  cases per 100,000 for the period April 25 to May 8, 2021, (7 cases in week 1; 4 cases in week 2) from 16.6 cases per 100,000 for the period of April 18 to May 1, 2021, (11 cases in week 1; 7 cases in week 2).

On Monday, May 17, 2021, Connecticut state officials said from Wednesday, May 12, 2021, at 8:30 p.m. to Sunday, May 16, 2021, at 8:30 p.m., COVID-19 cases in the state rose to 345,639. This is an increase of 1,027 cases over four days. The state daily test positivity rate as of Sunday, May 16, 2021, at 8:30 p.m. was 1.33%, down from 1.57% Wednesday, May 12, 2021, at 8:30 p.m.

On Sunday at 8:30 p.m., 170 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized, a decrease of 52 patients since Wednesday, and deaths numbered 8,194, an increase of 26 deaths.

Cumulative cases in Middlebury and abutting towns were: Middlebury – 627 confirmed (+1) and 87 probable (-1), Naugatuck – 3,177 confirmed and 332 probable, Oxford – 848 confirmed and 88 probable, Southbury – 1,236 confirmed and 222 probable, Woodbury – 565 confirmed and 79 probable, Watertown – 2,189 confirmed and 299 probable, and Waterbury – 14,695 confirmed and 1,587 probable.

This brief daily report focuses on the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Middlebury and its abutting towns. Readers interested in more information can click on the link below to the state’s daily report. The state publishes reports Monday through Friday. Thursday’s report is more detailed than those on other days.

Read the entire report here.

 

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