Officials say a resident of a Connecticut halfway house did not test positive for coronavirus.
The unidentified resident was living at Roger Sherman House in New Haven. They were admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital after showing flu-like symptoms, officials said.
Residents and staff at the halfway house stayed inside on Wednesday out of an abundance of caution, officials said. The 61-bed facility was nearly fully occupied at the time.
To date, no inmates in Connecticut have tested positive for coronavirus. But inmates have tested positive at Rikers Island in New York City and Nassau Correctional Center on Long Island.
Some advocates have called for Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont to release some inmates to prevent a coronavirus outbreak in the state’s prisons.
