HARTFORD, CT (1010 WINS) -- Only 30 percent of schools in Connecticut will be starting off the year with full-time, in-person learning, Gov. Ned Lamont said Monday.
In a news briefing Monday afternoon, Lamont said 30 percent of K-12 schools in the state plan to reopen to students full-time. Most of those schools are in rural or suburban areas, he noted.
Forty-one percent of schools plan to take a fully "hybrid" approach, with a mix of in-person and remote learning, while 28 percent plan to start off the year with a hybrid plan before shifting to full-time in-person learning.
One percent of schools in the state plan to employ distance learning "for the foreseeable future," including schools in Danbury, which has been dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak, Lamont said.
"I'd like to see all schools open full-time by mid-October," he said.
Connecticut reported a total of 384 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, for a 0.8 percent positivity rate, Lamont said during his briefing. The state didn't report any new COVID-19 deaths on those three days.
As of Sunday, 52 people in Connecticut were hospitalized with COVID-19, down by eight from Saturday.
