A special committee is meeting Friday to review Gov. Ned Lamont's extraordinary powers.

A restaurant and bar in Storrs popular with UConn students was temporarily shut down in late August by the local health department for failing to enforce social distancing and mask-wearing requirements among customers, the type of scenario Mansfield residents had feared would take place when the campus reopened.

The Department of Public Health commissioner and other state officials have received threats over the department’s recommendation that Connecticut high schools refrain from football this fall, Speaker of the House Joe Aresimowicz said in a Facebook post Saturday.

Resistance to COVID-19 vaccination differed along racial and socioeconomic lines, with Black and low-income respondents significantly less inclined to vaccinate themselves than whites, Latinos and those with higher incomes.

As Connecticut students head back to school, public health officials say it is more important than ever for residents to get the flu shot. With educators and parents closely monitoring students for sore throats, fevers and coughs, flu symptoms could easily be mistaken for signs of COVID-19, leading to a “difficult dilemma” for schools as national manufacturers struggle to provide accurate, rapid COVID-19 tests.

Campus police responded to two “off-campus gatherings” Friday night, officials said.

Connecticut’s COVID-19 metrics improved this week after a rise in cases last week causes some concern about a possible increase in transmission.

A restaurant and bar in Storrs popular with UConn students was temporarily shut down in late August by the local health department for failing to enforce social distancing and mask-wearing requirements among customers, the type of scenario Mansfield residents had feared would take place when the campus reopened.

Since March 10, confirmed COVID-19 cases in Connecticut have grown from two to nearly 5,000 and there have been more than 130 reported deaths from the virus.

A 21-year-old New Haven woman and 23-year-old New Haven man were killed in an early morning car crash on Sunday, according to New Haven police.