In New Jersey, another 2,746 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 89 additional deaths were reported Thursday, as winter weather in New Jersey and across the country rescheduled delays in vaccine delivery and essential appointments.
Government Phil Murphy announced the update on social media a day after extending the state’s public health emergency for the thirteenth time by 30 days – a move that he says will help the state continue to carry out vaccinations as the second wave of the pandemic continues to signal tone.
The Garden State’s average of seven days for newly confirmed positive cases is now 2,766, down 18% from a week ago and up 46% from a month ago.
The number of coronavirus patients in New Jersey’s hospitals dropped for the 15th consecutive day and dropped to 2,327 from Wednesday night. This is 40% lower than a recent high of 3,872 on 22 December and the lowest number of patients since 15 November.
The latest transmission rate across the country is 0.91, the same as the previous day. If the rate is below 1, it indicates that the outbreak of the state is slowing down. But the rate has recently risen for six consecutive days after weeks of gradual decline.
New Jersey has now reported 675,713 confirmed cases of coronavirus from more than 10 million PCR tests in the more than 11 months since the state first reported the case on March 4, 2020. There were also 82,738 positive antigen tests. These cases are considered likely, and health officials have warned that positive antigen tests may overlap with the confirmed PCR tests, as they are sometimes given at the same time.
The state of 9 million people also reported that 22,721 residents died from complications associated with COVID-19 – including 20,432 confirmed deaths and 2,289 considered probable. In February, the state reported 1,091 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus.
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According to Thursday, 1,544,402 doses of vaccines were administered in New Jersey. Of these, 1,086,763 were the first of two doses that people would receive, while 436,988 were the second.
That is out of more than 1.79 million doses the state has received from the federal government, according to a running version of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The state’s goal is to vaccinate at least 70% of its adult population by May. That is about 4.7 million people.
Murphy warned on Thursday that the winter storm that was hitting the state – and the other parts of the country – could cause problems for the supply and distribution of vaccines in the coming days.
“Our expected deliveries will not come on schedule,” he told a morning news conference. “It can result in a lot of appointments having to be rescheduled.”
The storm closed New Jersey’s mega-sites in Burlington, Middlesex and Morris Counties, while the mega-site in Bergen closed at 10 a.m. and the mega-site in Gloucester County decided to close at 2 p.m., Murphy said. said. The site in Atlantic County remains open.
Meanwhile, Murphy said Wednesday that the state probably intends to lift more restrictions on the coronavirus if it were not for the uncertainty surrounding more infectious variants.
“If we continue to see hospitalizations in particular continue to decline, there is no doubt that we will take more steps to open up,” Murphy said. “But I think we will be more careful than we would otherwise be absent from the deviations.”
Only one COVID-19 variant has been discovered in New Jersey – the one that originated in the United Kingdom, State Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said on Wednesday. So far, the state has recorded 50 cases of the variant, Persichilli said. Health officials say vaccines look effective against the British variant, but the strain is more contagious than the typical coronavirus strain.
COUNTRY-TO-COUNTRY AFFAIRS (sorted by most new)
- Bergen County: 65,828 confirmed cases (336 new), 2,292 confirmed deaths (280 likely)
- Ocean County: 49,803 confirmed cases (310 new), 1,683 confirmed deaths (115 likely)
- Hudson County: 61,124 confirmed cases (300 new), 1,784 confirmed deaths (177 likely)
- Essex County: 64,993 confirmed cases (288 new), 2,364 confirmed deaths (266 likely)
- Middlesex County: 65,244 confirmed cases (267 new), 1,827 confirmed deaths (224 likely)
- Monmouth County: 49,201 confirmed cases (205 new), 1,247 confirmed deaths (118 likely)
- Union County: 47,400 confirmed cases (165 new), 1,534 confirmed deaths (196 likely)
- Passaic County: 50,654 confirmed cases (135 new), 1,486 confirmed deaths (169 likely)
- Morris County: 30,643 confirmed cases (129 new), 878 confirmed deaths (225 likely)
- Camden County: 38,385 confirmed cases (97 new), 1,299 confirmed deaths (79 likely)
- Atlantic County: 18,986 confirmed cases (95 new), 520 confirmed deaths (26 likely)
- Burlington County: 29,928 confirmed cases (83 new), 672 confirmed deaths (54 likely)
- Somerset County: 17,880 confirmed cases (77 new), 674 confirmed deaths (102 likely)
- Mercer County: 25,383 confirmed cases (71 new), 820 confirmed deaths (39 likely)
- Gloucester County: 20,444 confirmed cases (53 new), 500 confirmed deaths (26 likely)
- Hunterdon County: 5,983 confirmed cases (30 new), 101 confirmed deaths (54 likely)
- Sussex County: 7,613 confirmed cases (26 new), 206 confirmed deaths (62 likely)
- Cumberland County: 11,694 confirmed cases (21 new), 325 confirmed deaths (21 likely)
- Warren County: 6,030 confirmed cases (20 new), 192 confirmed deaths (19 likely)
- Salem County: 4118 confirmed cases (15 new), 148 confirmed deaths (11 likely)
- Cape May County: 3,566 confirmed cases (12 new), 150 confirmed deaths (26 likely)
COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY VACCINATIONS
- ATLANTIC COUNTRY – 47 683 doses administered
- BERGEN COUNTY – 171616 doses administered
- BURLINGTON COUNTY – 79 151 doses administered
- CAMDEN COUNTY – 88 247 doses administered
- CAPE MAY COUNTY – 21 945 doses administered
- CUMBERLAND COUNTRY – 21 276 doses administered
- ESSEX LAND – 125 328 doses administered
- GLOUCESTER COUNTY – 54 019 doses administered
- HUDSON COUNTY – 69 028 doses administered
- HUNTERDON COUNTY – 20 013 doses administered
- TRADE COUNTRY – 42 396 doses administered
- MIDDLESEX COUNTRY – 117 555 doses administered
- MONMOUTH COUNTY – 114,699 doses administered
- MORRIS-LAND – 111 417 doses administered
- OCEAN COUNTY – 91,011 doses administered
- PASSAIC COUNTY – 69 558 doses administered
- SALEM COUNTY – 9 380 doses administered
- SOMERSET COUNTRY – 58 453 doses administered
- SUSSEX COUNTY – 23 590 doses administered
- UNION COUNTRY – 74 800 doses administered
- WARREN-LAND – 14,380 doses
- UNKNOWN LAND – 50 572 doses administered
- OUTSIDE – 48 285 doses administered
HOSPITALIZATIONS
There was 2,327 patients admitted to the 71 hospitals in New Jersey on Wednesday night with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases – 43 fewer than the night before.
This included 474 in critical or intensive care (58 more than the previous night), with 306 on ventilators (three less).
According to the state’s dashboard, 308 COVID-19 patients were also discharged on Wednesday.
SCHOOL SUBJECTS
New Jersey reported 144 coronavirus outbreaks at school, resulting in 686 cases among students, teachers and school staff, according to academic year.
According to the state’s dashboard, outbreaks are – defined as cases in which it has been confirmed that people contracted or transmitted the virus in the classroom or during academic activities.
These numbers do not include students or staff who are suspected of being infected outside the school, or cases that cannot be confirmed as outbreaks in the school. Although the numbers continue to rise every week, Murphy said the statistics for school outbreaks are lower than government officials expected when schools reopened for personal classes.
New Jersey defines school outbreaks as cases where contact detectives determined that two or more students or school staff caught or transmitted COVID-19 in the classroom or during academic activities at school.
There are about 1.4 million students and teachers across the country.
AGE DISTRIBUTION
Degraded by age, those aged 30 to 49 form the largest percentage of New Jersey residents who contracted the virus (31%), followed by those aged 50-64 (23.4%), 18-29 (19.4). %), 65 -79 (11%), 5-17 (8.2%), 80 and older (5.1%) and 0-4 (1.7%).
On average, the virus was more deadly to older residents, especially those with a pre-existing condition. Nearly half of COVID-19 deaths were among residents 80 and older (47.36%), followed by 65-79 (32.7%), 50-64 (15.55%), 30-49 ( 4.02%), 18-29 (0.36%), 5-17 (0%) and 0-4 (0.02%).
At least 7,867 of the COVID-19 deaths in the state were among residents and staff members at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.
There are currently active outbreaks at 381 facilities, resulting in 6,887 active cases among residents and 7,011 among staff members.
GENERAL NUMBERS
As of early Thursday afternoon, there are 109.6 million positive COVID-19 tests worldwide, according to a running score from Johns Hopkins University. More than 2.4 million people have died from coronavirus-related complications.
The U.S. reported the most cases, more than 27.7 million, and the most deaths, more than 488,300.
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