Those include 483 workers at the state Department of Correction, which has about 5,400 employees.

"The majority of employees who are currently out of compliance are working with the state to come into compliance and anticipate coming into compliance in the coming days," said Lamont spokesperson David Bednarz.

The Department of Correction and the union representing correction officers did not immediately respond to requests for comment by Fox News.

The department confirmed Friday that it has seen a recent uptick in COVID-19 cases in several prisons, including the Hartford Correctional Center, New Haven Correctional Center and Carl Robinson Correctional Center.

The largest outbreak was reported at Hartford, where 69 inmates have recently tested positive, including 11 who are being treated at the prison system’s MacDougall-Walker Medical Isolation Unit and another who was transferred to an outside hospital, Banevicius said

The department has suspended in-person social visits at the Hartford facility as a result and are relying instead on virtual chats, he said