The Naugatuck Valley Health District reported two new COVID-19 cases since Sept. 3.
The latest report issued Tuesday, Sept. 8 shows single new positive tests in Ansonia and Derby. A total of 1,787 people in the NVHD’s jurisdiction have tested positive since March. There have been 209 COVID associated deaths locally since March, with an additional deaths labeled as COVID probable.
The NVHD’s jurisdiction includes Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Derby, Naugatuck, Seymour, and Shelton. Oxford is in the Pomperaug Health District.
The State of Connecticut does not issue specific COVID “recovery” data. Neither does Florida, for that matter, because defining “recovery” as an absolute term can be tough, as The Valley Indy first reported in April.
The now famous COVID online tracker from Johns Hopkins University shows about 9,000 recoveries in Connecticut. It’s embedded below. Use the icons to zoom around the map. It might not function on mobile devices. If that’s the case, Google “Johns Hopkins University COVID dashboard.”
Gov. Ned Lamont reported Tuesday that the state’s infection rate remains just below 1 percent. The state reported six additional COVID-associated deaths since Friday. Fifty people are in the hospital — down eight patients since Friday.
State Republicans have become increasingly frustrated with Lamont’s COVID-related executive orders. The state’s decision to suspend traditional high school football on Friday has been met with strong opposition.
On Tuesday, state Rep. Nicole Klarides-Ditria (R‑Seymour) Tweeted that she had signed a letter “imploring the governor to meet with DPH and the CIAC and work out a way that our student athletes can continue with football this coming fall or possibly in the spring.”
“The decision to suspend football is not the right one,” she said.
Her Tweet is embedded below:
Yesterday, I signed onto a letter with my colleagues imploring the governor to meet with DPH and the CIAC and work out a way that our student athletes can continue with football this coming fall or possibly in the spring.
— Klarides-Ditria (@RepNKD) September 8, 2020
The decision to suspend football is not the right one. pic.twitter.com/e9dvl1AHZD
The letter states that Connecticut has done a good job getting a handle on COVID, and that the kids deserve to play.
At a press conference Tuesday, Lamont said that high school football might return in 2021, perhaps in the spring.
The state’s Department of Health advised that football not return in the fall because of the sport’s potential to spread the virus.
Click here for the CDC guidelines on youth sports as it relates to COVID-19.
The Sept. 8 report from the Naugatuck Valley Health District is embedded below.
NVHD COVID-19 Update – Sept 8 2020 by The Valley Indy on Scribd
