The Naugatuck Valley Health District reported 32 new COVID-19 cases between Friday (Oct. 16) and Monday evening (Oct.19), according to a report issued Monday.
The new 32 cases are in addition to the 69 cases reported to the health district between Oct. 9 and Oct. 16.
The 32 new cases were spread out through the health district’s jurisdiction as follows:
- 7 new cases in Shelton
- 6 new cases in Naugatuck
- 5 new cases in Ansonia, Derby and Seymour
- 4 new cases in Beacon Falls
The NVHD reported that six of the new cases involved people between 0 and 19 years old. Sixteen of the new cases were people between 20 and 39 years of age.
Overall, there have been 2,013 COVID-19 infections in the lower Valley (not counting Oxford) since March. There have been 209 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 associated deaths since March within the NVHD’s jurisdiction. There have been an additional 35 deaths classified as COVID “probable.”
Thirty-eight percent of the local COVID-19 deaths were people living in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, or similar group settings.
The NVHD has not reported a COVID-19 associated death since July 31.
COVID-19 is having a major impact on public schools in Shelton.
The following was reported by The Shelton Herald on Tuesday:
The school district was seven buses short for its Tuesday morning run due to 13 drivers who were out — five quarantined due to COVID-19, officials said. This came after the district was short two buses on Friday.
The schools impacted Tuesday were Shelton High, Mohegan School and Perry Hill School, Interim Superintendent Beth Smith said.
The state as a whole is seeing an uptick in COVID-19 hospitalizations, though the total number is much less than in April. Click here for a story from The Hartford Courant.
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Click here for the latest COVID-19 report from the state.
The CDC and the state health department are advising residents to not go door-to-door on Halloween. It’s not an executive order nor a “law.”
In terms of “canceling” Halloween, a notion often discussed on local Facebook groups, local leaders can’t make local laws that exceed state laws.
Curfews could be set locally, but they would be voluntary, barring an act by the state.
Click here to read the COVID-19 dashboard from Johns Hopkins University. It contains “recovery” data.
The Halloween guidelines from the federal and state government are embedded below:
Connecticut Halloween Guida… by The Valley Indy
Here is the Oct. 19 COVID-19 report from the Naugatuck Valley Health District:
