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As COVID takes out the workforce, Connecticut employers are struggling through the omicron surge

The Hartford Financial Services Group, which employs thousands at its corporate headquarters in Hartford’s Asylum Hill, said Friday it is delaying a broad-based return of its workforce to the office.

Short of plow drivers in the face of a storm that will pile up to an inch of snow per hour on roads early Friday, the Connecticut Department of Transportation is asking the public for patience.

Connecticut on Thursday reported 121 coronavirus-linked deaths over the past week, most in a seven-day period in nearly a year.

Some of the children are very young – under 5 years old and therefore ineligible to be vaccinated.

As school districts grapple with COVID-19-related absences among students and staff, help in the form of 670,000 at-home rapid tests were made available Tuesday to schools and child care providers across the state, Gov. Ned Lamont announced Tuesday.

The Iron Horse Inn in Simsbury has shut down and developer Luke Florian will convert the building into 25 luxury apartments.

Martin Looney, a New Haven Democrat and president pro tempore of the Connecticut Senate, said he, too, would welcome a statewide mask mandate.

Hartford’s initiative to help fill vacant storefronts downtown and in city neighborhoods with up to $6 million in overall funding has drawn dozens of applications since the program was announced a month ago.

Connecticut entered 2021 amid a large COVID-19 wave, with hopes it would be the state’s last. Now, Connecticut ends 2021... well, amid a large COVID-19 wave, with hopes it will be the state’s last.