Officials: 399 new COVID-19 cases in Connecticut, statewide total at 5,675

Gov. Ned Lamont said Sunday that there are an additional 399 cases of coronavirus in Connecticut, bringing the statewide total to 5,675.

He said that to date, more than 23,270 tests have been conducted in Connecticut among both state and private laboratories.

Officials say approximately 1,142 patients have been hospitalized, and that the total number of COVID-19-associated fatalities is 189.

On Sunday, Lamont issued another executive order to help slow the spread of COVID-19. The order gives protection from civil liability for actions or omissions in support of the state's COVID-19 response and also financially protects the uninsured and people covered by insurance who receive out-of-network health care services during the public health emergency.

Access Health CT, Connecticut's health insurance marketplace, is continuing to enroll uninsured residents in health plans under a new special enrollment period that was created due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The special enrollment period began on March 19 and was initially scheduled to end on April 2, but was recently extended to April 17.
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