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With COVID-19 cases climbing into the new year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has ranked Litchfield County in the “high” category for community transmission along with five other Connecticut counties.
SHARON — The flu is back, coronavirus is circulating and respiratory viruses are targeting the young. This stew of sickness has schools, nursing homes and hospitals bracing for a long, hard third winter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SALISBURY — Administrators of Northwest Corner nursing homes said they are responding cautiously to updated state and federal COVID-19 infection prevention and control guidance, released last week, relaxing protocols for masking, vaccination, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), quarantine and testing protocols in areas where community transmiss
SHARON — Citing concerns about rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the Northwest Corner, school and health care administrators said they are taking proactive measures to monitor the recent uptick, which they expect will climb in coming weeks following family gatherings during spring break and the Easter and Passover holidays.
SALISBURY — First Selectman Curtis Rand opened the regular monthly selectmen’s meeting on Monday, Jan. 3, with a warning of the increased number of COVID-19 cases and the extreme contagiousness of the omicron variant.
After two years of keeping COVID-19 infections out of its Salisbury nursing facility, Bill Pond, administrator of the Noble Horizons Senior Community, on Friday, Jan. 7, reported the first positive coronavirus case among its residents since the pandemic started.
MILLBROOK — Because of the resurgence in COVID-19 cases, the Millbrook Central School District (MCSD) has canceled in-person learning at all of its school buildings until Monday, Jan. 3.
Gov. Ned Lamont announced on Saturday, Dec. 4, that a Connecticut resident has tested positive for the highly contagious coronavirus omicron variant.
“The case involves a man in his 60s from Hartford County who developed mild symptoms on Nov. 27,” the governor said in a press release sent out on Dec. 4 around 9 p.m.
NORTH CANAAN — Two days before Thanksgiving, Kevin O’Connell, CEO of the Geer Village Senior Community, received welcome news: The latest round of testing on residents and staff at the on-site nursing and rehabilitation center “all came back negative” for COVID-19, he reported in a phone interview.
NORTH CANAAN — The Geer Village Senior Community appears to be emerging from an outbreak of COVID-19 that had involved 67 residents and 22 staff since Sept. 30.
However, eight residents of the 82-bed nursing facility with serious underlying health issues died from the coronavirus during that recent wave of infections.
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