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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.
The state Department of Public Health (DPH) is cracking down on long-term care facilities, including dozens of nursing homes, for failing to report the vaccination status of employees by Sept. 28 as mandated by executive order.
While all three available COVID-19 vaccines are helping to prevent severe illness and hospitalization, nursing home residents are at heightened risk of becoming critically ill due to aging immune systems and underlying health conditions, according to health experts.
State Rep. Maria Horn (D-64) hosted two physicians from the Nuvance Health system, the parent company of Sharon Hospital, during an informational webinar on Thursday, Sept. 16, to update the community on COVID-19.
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