This once previously secure state has a "serious epidemic", officially warned
A city has increased 345% of COVID cases over the past two weeks.
While the United States begins to see a general decline in deaths and hospitalizations related to Covid, parts of the country are stillIn difficulty to obtain the virus under control. Recently coronavirus cases started stinging in a state that had been considered "safe". Connecticut Public Health CommissionerDeidere Gifford, MD, has just declared that theDanbury City knows a "serious epidemic".
The Connecticut Ministry of Public Health (DPH) has published an alert of August 21 Covid-19 to encourage Danbury residents to stay at home due to the important tip in the affairs of the region. According to a DPH statement, "between August 2-20, Danbury recorded at least 178 new CVIV-19 cases, ahuge increase During the previous two weeks, while 40 new cases were recorded. This represents a 345% increase in new cases.
The DPH assigns a large part of the current epidemic to bothDomestic and international trips. Connecticut now requires anyone traveling to the state of oneself in quarantine for 14 days on arrival to avoid further transmission.
"We really need all hands on a bridge approach. We need everyone in Danbury to take extreme precautions," Gifford said in a statement. The DPH asks that Danbury residents remain at home when possible,masks, Limit domestic gatherings to those they live and avoid large outdoor meetings. According to Danbury MayorMark Boughton Twitter,Parks and sports are extinguished In the city to prevent the propagation of the virus later. However, civil servants have not yet addressed if rising in business will affect planningback to school.
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Connecticut has been one of the rare states that can keep casesrelatively low throughout the pandemic. The statesAverage of seven highest days was more than 1,000 of more than 1,000 at the height of the April pandemic and was more recently more than 100 years old, depending on the data ofThe New York Times.Anthony Fauci, MD, even rented the state for the way he treated Covid during a briefing."Connecticut is in a good place" He said on August 3rd.
But if the cases of Danbury continue to climb, the overvoltage of the coronavirus of the city could bring the cases reported by the state to push radically, pushing Connecticut on a dangerous territory. And for a state that has managed to transform things around,This old state of "red zone" now has the lowest rate of infection in US U.S.
