New Jersey reported Tuesday another 3,429 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 27 additional confirmed deaths, as the number of people hospitalized in the state exceeded 2,000 patients for the first time in nearly a month.
Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday when he declared that New Jersey was “back to the nation in spreading this virus,” that the recent increase likely means there will be no additional announcements in the near future about the weakening of restrictions.
The Garden State’s average of seven days for newly confirmed cases is now 3,391, up 11% from a week ago and 29% from a month ago. This is the highest average of seven days since February 4th.
There were 2,066 coronavirus patients in New Jersey’s hospitals as of Monday night – the first time more than 2,000 patients have been reported since Feb. 25, according to state data. Hospitalizations have been down since mid-January when more than 3,700 patients were treated, but have been hovering nearly 2,000 for two weeks.
New Jersey health care and vaccination centers have now administered about 3.56 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine – including more than 1.26 million people who are considered fully vaccinated according to state data. About 500,000 doses of vaccine were administered last week, Murphy said.
The state’s goal is to vaccinate 70% of its adults – about 4.7 million people – by the end of May. More than 18% of the adult population was fully vaccinated and more than half of the adults were administered at least once.
New Jersey’s transmission rate remained the same at 1.09 on Tuesday. Any number of more than 1 indicates that the outbreak is growing, with each new case having at least one other case.
In total, New Jersey now reported 770,980 confirms coronavirus cases from more than 11.6 million PCR tests in the year since the state reported its first case on March 4, 2020. There were also 102,860 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.
According to the state of 9 million people, 24,242 inhabitants died complications associated with COVID-19 – 21,727 confirmed deaths and 2,515 deaths considered probable.
New Jersey on Friday raised the limit for indoor and outdoor gatherings from 25 to 50 people and increased the capacity limits for restaurants, gyms and health clubs, recreational facilities and arcades, and businesses for personal care to 50%. But mask mandates and guidelines for social distance will remain in force.
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COUNTRIES VACCINATION
- ATLANTIC COUNTRY – 117 348 doses administered
- BERGEN COUNTY – 409,031 doses administered
- BURLINGTON COUNTY – 192 226 doses administered
- CAMDEN COUNTY – 218 301 doses administered
- CAPE TOWN – 51,668 doses administered
- CUMBERLAND COUNTY – 50 421 doses administered
- ESSEX COUNTRY – 273 512 doses administered
- GLOUCESTER COUNTY – 135 396 doses administered
- HUDSON COUNTY – 178 681 doses administered
- HUNTERDON COUNTY – 49 542 doses administered
- TRADE COUNTRY – 129 485 doses administered
- MIDDLESEX COUNTRY – 293 235 doses administered
- MONMOUTH COUNTY – 271 160 doses administered
- MORRIS COUNTRY – 265 573 doses administered
- OCEAN COUNTY – 221 183 doses administered
- PASSAIC COUNTY – 158 649 doses administered
- SALEM COUNTY – 24 234 doses administered
- SOMERSET COUNTRY – 145 294 doses administered
- SUSSEX COUNTRY – 55,622 doses administered
- UNION COUNTRY – 187,595 doses administered
- WARREN-LAND – 36 086 doses administered
- UNKNOWN LAND – 4 130 doses administered
- OUTSIDE – 92 130 doses administered
COUNTY COUNTY NUMBERS (sorted by most new cases)
- Bergen County: 76,870 confirmed cases (362 new), 2,412 confirmed deaths (288 probable)
- Hudson County: 69,777 confirmed cases (344 new), 1,889 confirmed deaths (197 likely)
- Middlesex County: 74,235 confirmed cases (332 new), 1,942 confirmed deaths (242 likely)
- Monmouth County: 58,347 confirmed cases (321 new), 1,344 confirmed deaths (133 likely)
- Essex County: 73,978 confirmed cases (311 new), 2,478 confirmed deaths (282 likely)
- Ocean County: 57,461 confirmed cases (243 new), 1,821 confirmed deaths (144 likely)
- Morris County: 36,489 confirmed cases (187 new), 928 confirmed deaths (238 likely)
- Union County: 53,085 confirmed cases (178 new), 1,626 confirmed deaths (213 likely)
- Passaic County: 56,318 confirmed cases (174 new), 1,579 confirmed deaths (189 likely)
- Burlington County: 33,311 confirmed cases (140 new), 718 confirmed deaths (62 likely)
- Camden County: 42,066 confirmed cases (129 new), 1117 confirmed deaths (97 likely)
- Mercer County: 28,085 confirmed cases (116 new), 861 confirmed deaths (43 likely)
- Gloucester County: 22,675 confirmed cases (106 new), 541 confirmed deaths (30 likely)
- Somerset County: 20,769 confirmed cases (100 new), 699 confirmed deaths (104 likely)
- Atlantic County: 21,516 confirmed cases (90 new), 569 confirmed deaths (32 likely)
- Warren County: 7,272 confirmed cases (61 new), 199 confirmed deaths (25 likely)
- Sussex County: 9,096 confirmed cases (57 new), 214 confirmed deaths (65 likely)
- Cumberland County: 12,884 confirmed cases (51 new), 358 confirmed deaths (37 likely)
- Hunterdon County: 7,153 confirmed cases (49 new), 114 confirmed deaths (54 likely)
- Salem County: 4,568 confirmed cases (48 new), 155 confirmed deaths (12 likely)
- Cape May County: 3,998 confirmed cases (11 new), 163 confirmed deaths (28 likely)
HOSPITALIZATIONS
Number of daily hospitalizations from 22 March.
As of Monday night, 2066 patients have been admitted to the hospital with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases in New Jersey’s 71 hospitals – 73 more than the night before, according to the state’s dashboard.
This included 433 in critical or intensive care (five more than the previous day), with 234 on ventilators (17 more).
There was also 185 COVID-19 patients were discharged Monday.
Hospitalizations peaked at more than 8,000 patients during the first wave of the pandemic in April.
SCHOOL SUBJECTS
In New Jersey, 188 coronavirus outbreaks have been reported at school, resulting in 890 cases among students, teachers and school staff, according to academic year.
The state 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. 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.
There are about 1.4 million public school students and teachers across the state, although teaching methods vary amid the outbreak, with some schools teaching in person, some using a hybrid format and others being quite out of control.
Murphy on Wednesday called on more schools in New Jersey to return to personal learning. He also said officials “fully expect” schools across New Jersey to return for personal learning “safely and responsibly” when the next school year begins in September.
AGE BREAKS OUT
Degraded by age, those aged 30 to 49 form the largest percentage of New Jersey residents who contracted the virus (30.9%), followed by those aged 50-64 (23%), 18-29 (19.7%). %), 65-79 (10.7%), 5-17 (8.9%), 80 and older (4.8%) and 0-4 (1.8%).
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 (47.07%), followed by 65-79 (32.79%), 50-64 (15.68%), 30-49 ( 4.05%), 18-29 (0.37%), 5-17 (0%) and 0-4 (0.02%).
At least 7,972 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 active outbreaks at 240 facilities, resulting in 4,275 active cases among residents and 4,855 among staff.
GENERAL NUMBERS
According to Tuesday morning, there were 124 million positive COVID-19 tests worldwide, according to a running count from Johns Hopkins University. More than 2.75 million people have died from coronavirus-related complications.
The U.S. reported the most cases, more than 29.8 million, and the most deaths, more than 542,900.
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