CONNECTICUT – Governor Ned Lamont has expressed fear of Danbury’s 7% COVID-19 positivity rate, but that’s just one of the reasons the State Department of Public Health issued a “COVID-19 alert” for the city on Friday.
The increase in COVID-19 cases in Hat City, and the state’s reaction to that, was the “A” theme at the governor’s daily press convention on coronavirus on Monday.
Connecticut Chief Operating Officer Josh Geballe asked for the alert factor, which then prompted the closure of on-site learning at public schools and a local university, “a judicial decision,” in talks with the State Department of Public Health, Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton and the Danbury Department of Health. Statewide, the positivity rate in COVID-19 is less than 1%.
“Assess a wide variety of points. It’s definitely about the parameters and the number of cases, and the trend lines, but also other Points of Array …. Working with our partners in Danbury at the municipal level, the department’s judgment. friday health we saw enough, we looked after spreading the word more aggressively and that the movements we sought to see the net suffocate in the egg.”
Geballe described the measures taken in Danbury as an example of what the state would expect from any municipality that receives a COVID-19 alert:
Finalize safe activities to contribute to the dissemination of the network, such as sporting events, parks or boats; Consider shortening some devout meetings in the short term; However, the most common thing is to flood the network with more testing, which is what we’ve done a lot over the last week. “
Lamont said each and every one of the city’s nursing homes would re-examine the staff and perform a thorough disinfection: “We brought in the bucket brigade.”
The DPH is now tracking neighboring Danbury’s communities “very closely,” according to the governor, so “their infection rates have remained very low, which is why their schools continue to reopen regularly.”
Danbury Public Schools, which had embarked on a hybrid style of reopening by the fall, announced Monday that the only option for academics would be distance education, amid the COVID-19 peak. Western Connecticut State University has delayed students returning to their college apartments for two weeks, and Naugautuck Valley Community College will not open its Danbury campus for the next two weeks, moving exclusively to online courses.
The main points that contribute to viral alerting are similar to travel, both domestic and international, “bringing cases, presenting them at family reunion parties or circles where other people do not wear mask or social estrangement,” Geballe said. “It has to stop.”
The state issues an updated notice each week, and those who enter Connecticut will have to be quarantined for 14 days or face a fine.
Paul Mounds, the governor’s chief of staff, called it a rumor that officials were targeting the Brazilian network of Danbury as the epicentre of the virus track, following the publication of a report published in Portuguese and published in a local newspaper. “We’re not targeting an express network, we’re targeting an entire city to make sure everyone understands the risk.”
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The governor also commented on the weekend shooting involving police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and said he was “shocked” by the incident, which happened shortly after The death of George Floyd, that Lamont called a “wake-up call.”
In Connecticut, “we love our police, but we also hold other people accountable,” Lamont said, which is why the legislature recently passed a police responsibility bill.
This article was originally published in the Across Connecticut patch