Press Releases - 2020

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• 9/12/2020 DPH Warns Residents in Shoreline Areas of Illness Caused by Bacteria in Salt or Brackish Water

• 9/9/2020 DPH Announces Three New Cases of West Nile Virus (WNV) Infection in Fairfield County

• 9/4/2020 DPH Issues Labor Day Weekend COVID-19 Alert After Clusters of Cases Among College Students, Plus Many Social Events Planned

• 8/31/2020 DPH Finds COVID-19 Outbreak at Three Rivers Nursing Home in Norwich the Result of Serious Infection Control Violations

• 8/27/2020 Risk of West Nile Virus Continues: Positive Mosquitoes Detected in 14 Connecticut Towns

• 8/27/2020 Connecticut Interagency Drought Workgroup: Four Counties Are Experiencing Stage 2 Drought Conditions

• 8/21/2020 DPH Issues COVID-19 Alert to Danbury Community After Significant Spike in New Cases

• 8/20/2020 DPH Investigating COVID-19 Outbreak at Three Rivers Nursing Home in Norwich

• 8/18/2020 Governor Lamont And Commissioner Gifford Receive Interim Report from Firm Conducting Review of COVID-19 Response in CT Nursing Homes

• 8/17/2020 DPH Announces First Connecticut Human Case of West Nile Virus (WNV) Infection in 2020

• 8/10/2020 State Reports First Positive Mosquitoes for EEE Virus in Stonington

• 8/5/2020 DPH ISSUES WARNING ABOUT CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING IN WAKE OF STORM DAMAGE AND POWER OUTAGES

• 7/20/2020 Connecticut State Public Health Lab Discovers False Positive COVID-19 Test Results

• 6/1/2020 State Mosquito Monitoring Program Begins Testing for Mosquito-Borne Viral Diseases

• 4/13/2020 DPH Issues Warning about Carbon Monoxide Poisoning