Quantcast
Government Health

Just In Time For Summer, New COVID-19 Variant Picks Up Steam

The CDC’s regional map showing the BA.5 variant’s dominance, in green. Credit: Contributed photo / The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

West Hartford has had 62 reported positive cases in the past seven days, but that doesn’t include positive results on home tests.

By Christine Stuart, CTNewsJunkie.com 

As travel has picked up for the summer so has COVID-19. Health officials in Connecticut are watching the trends and while hospitalizations remain flat they are seeing an increase in infections this summer, largely because of a new variant – BA.5 – that has been circulating. BA.5 is now the most dominant COVID-19 variant circulating in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Concerns about the new subvariant are growing because the vaccines and boosters don’t protect against it yet and there’s also some concern it could transmit more easily outdoors, which was thought to be a less risky location for transmission of earlier strains.

Click here to read the rest of the article on CTNewsJunkie.com.

Like what you see here? Click here to subscribe to We-Ha’s newsletter so you’ll always be in the know about what’s happening in West Hartford! Click the blue button below to become a supporter of We-Ha.com and our efforts to continue producing quality journalism.

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

About the author

We-Ha

We-Ha.com is the place to go for the latest information about West Hartford – a town that "has it all"! We-Ha.com is part of and proud of our community, and we bring a hyperlocal focus to news and features about the people, schools, businesses, real estate, sports, restaurants, charitable events, arts, and more. Contact us at: [email protected] or [email protected].

1 Comment

  • Don’t fall for it people. This is just a scheme by people in power, mainly Democrats and power hungry unelected officials to control you. What they really want to do is influence the outcome of an election that is not going to go there way. Don’t give these people an inch of authority over your lives. Our small businesses cannot take this radicalism one more time.

Leave a Comment

Translate »