New Jersey health officials on Saturday announced 3,641 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 49 additional deaths as hospitalizations fell below 2,000 and to their lowest level in more than three months.
With the steady decline, the number of people hospitalized with coronavirus on Friday night dropped to 1,919, according to state data, the first time it has dropped below 2,000 since November 12.
The day after the COVID-19 activity level dropped to moderate levels for the first time since November, Governor Phil Murphy announced the latest numbers on Twitter, noting that from 1960 onwards, 1,960,629 doses of coronavirus vaccine had been administered is, including 1,295,891 first doses and 663,855 second doses.
That is out of more than 2.47 million doses the state has received, according to a running version of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The state’s goal is to vaccinate 70% of its adult population – about 4.7 million people – within the next few months.
Previously, Murphy said that New Jersey could receive an initial shipment of 70,000 doses of single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine next week if approved as expected.
The positivity rate for tests done on Monday, the latest day, was 6.53%, based on 55,350 tests. The nationwide transmission rate increased for the second day in a row to 0.89. Any rate below 1 means that the outbreak is delayed.
New Jersey has now reported 699,564 confirmed cases of coronavirus from more than 10.56 million PCR tests in the nearly twelve months since the state reported its first case on March 4, 2020. There were also 87,403 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.
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The state of 9 million people also reported that 23,238 residents died from complications related to COVID-19, including 2,331 deaths considered probable. This includes 1,574 confirmed coronavirus deaths reported in February.
New Jersey has identified 63 cases of the COVID-19 variant first identified in the UK, with eight new cases reported Friday.
ESTABLISHMENT BY COUNTRY
- ATLANTIC COUNTRY – 59 983 doses administered
- BERGEN COUNTY – 223,170 doses administered
- BURLINGTON COUNTY – 100 094 doses administered
- CAMDEN COUNTY – 111122 doses administered
- CAPE MAY COUNTY – 28 118 doses administered
- CUMBERLAND-LAND – 26 231 doses administered
- ESSEX COUNTRY – 156,101 doses administered
- GLOUCESTER COUNTY – 67 869 doses administered
- HUDSON COUNTY – 91 200 doses administered
- HUNTERDON COUNTY – 24 180 doses administered
- TRADE COUNTRY – 56 013 doses administered
- MIDDLESEX COUNTRY – 150 213 doses administered
- MONMOUTH COUNTY – 143 805 doses administered
- MORRIS COUNTRY – 144,748 doses administered
- EAST COUNTRY – 119 072 doses administered
- PASSAIC COUNTY – 88 570 doses administered
- SALEM COUNTY – 12 438 doses administered
- SOMERSET COUNTY – 74 233 doses administered
- SUSSEX COUNTY – 29 418 doses administered
- UNION COUNTRY – 94 493 doses administered
- WARREN-LAND – 17 917 doses administered
- UNKNOWN LAND – 84 776 doses administered
- OUTSIDE – 56 365 doses administered
HOSPITALIZATIONS
There was 1,919 patients were admitted to the hospital Friday night with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases in New Jersey’s 71 hospitals – 89 fewer than the night before and, according to the state’s dashboard, the lowest since Nov. 12.
This included 404 in critical or intensive care (35 less than the previous night), with 248 fans (22 less).
270 COVID-19 patients were also discharged on Friday.
Hospitalizations peaked at more than 8,000 patients during the first wave of the pandemic in April.
SCHOOL SUBJECTS
New Jersey reported eight new coronavirus outbreaks in the school on Tuesday, bringing the total to 152 cases, resulting in 737 cases among students, teachers and school staff, according to academic year.
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.
According to the state, school outbreaks have been reported in all 21 provinces.
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.
There are about 1.4 million students and teachers across the country, although the teaching methods were diverse amid the outbreak, while some schools taught in person, some with a hybrid format, and others were still completely remote.
AGE BREAKS OUT
Degraded by age, the 30 to 49-year-olds make up the largest percentage of New Jersey residents who contracted the virus (31%), followed by those 50-64 (23.3%), 18-29 (19.5%), 65-79 (10.9%), 5-17 (8.4%), 80 and older (5%) 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 years and older (46.7%), followed by 65-79 (33.3%), 50-64 (15.6%), 30-49 (3.9%), 18-29 (0.4%), 5-17 (0%) and 0-4 (0%).
At least 7,906 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 342 facilities, resulting in 6,413 active cases among residents and 6,538 among staff members.
GENERAL NUMBERS
As of early Saturday, there are more than 113.59 million positive COVID-19 tests worldwide, according to a running score from Johns Hopkins University. More than 2.52 million people have died from coronavirus-related complications.
The US reported the most cases, more than 28.5 million and the most deaths, more than 510,900.
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Rodrigo Torrejon can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @rodrigotorrejon.