Connecticut on Tuesday saw its highest positivity rate since June 12, Gov. Ned Lamont announced, after several weeks of an increased but steady rate.
From late June through early September, the state kept its positivity rate mostly below the gold standard of 1%. As schools and universities reopened and the weather began to cool, that rate ticked above 1% — and stayed there for about a month, rarely falling below that threshold and never spiking up to 2%.
But on Tuesday, the state reported that its daily positivity rate had jumped up to 2.4% — after 320 COVID-19 cases were identified out of a total of 13,398 tests.