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New Jersey on Sunday reported 3,823 more confirmed cases of coronavirus and 29 more deaths as an impending snowstorm threatens to disrupt vaccination efforts.
Hospitalizations fell to 2,901, the lowest since November 28. The positivity rate for tests performed on Wednesday, the most recent day available, was 8.69% of the 54,492 tests performed.
Gov. Phil Murphy announced the latest figures on Twitter Sunday morning and the state administers about 25,000 doses of the vaccine per day on average. There are now over 780,000 doses of vaccine administered to residents of New Jersey.
New Jersey has now lost 21,484 residents during the nearly 11-month epidemic, with 19,355 confirmed deaths and 2,129 considered probable. The death toll in January rose to 2,377 confirmed deaths, the most in a month since May.
The transmission rate increased slightly to 0.94, after four consecutive days from 0.91. Any number less than 1 indicates that the epidemic is slowing down.
The total number of confirmed cases is now 623,541 out of more than 9.2 million positive tests. There were also 73,288 positive antigenic tests, which the state has recently begun to report publicly. These cases are considered probable and health officials have warned that positive antigen tests could overlap with confirmed PCR tests as they are sometimes administered in tandem.
Murphy announced that he was extending the ban on interstate sports to certain age groups, including high school programs, which was set to expire on Sunday. The ban was first announced in November.
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VACCINATIONS
There have been 785,588 doses of vaccine administered in New Jersey to date, according to the state dashboard. From these, 656,174 were the first of two doses people will receive.
That’s over 1.23 million doses the state has received from the federal government, according to a current tally from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The state’s six immunization mega-sites have now opened along with around 200 other sites across the state, although some mega-sites had to suspend operations for a day after running out of doses. New Jersey State Police Col. Patrick Callahan said on Friday there were plans to clear snow from the six state-run megasites to ensure there were entrances and exits.
On Wednesday, Murphy said the state can now expect about 130,000 doses from the federal government over the next three weeks, up from 100,000, but that demand still far exceeds state supply.
VACCINATIONS BY COUNTY
- ATLANTIC COUNTY – 22,813 doses administered
- BERGEN COUNTY – 86,616 doses administered
- BURLINGTON COUNTY – 38,742 doses administered
- CAMDEN COUNTY – 46,359 doses administered
- CAPE MAY COUNTY – 11,358 doses administered
- CUMBERLAND COUNTY – 11,498 doses administered
- ESSEX COUNTY – 62,777 doses administered
- GLOUCESTER COUNTY – 26,024 doses administered
- HUDSON COUNTY – 36,437 doses administered
- HUNTERDON COUNTY – 10,785 doses administered
- MERCER COUNTY – 21,023 doses administered
- MIDDLESEX COUNTY – 58,828 doses administered
- MONMOUTH COUNTY – 59,564 doses administered
- MORRIS COUNTY – 58,242 doses administered
- OCEAN COUNTY – 47,462 doses administered
- PASSAIC COUNTY – 36,853 doses administered
- SALEM COUNTY – 4,691 doses administered
- SOMERSET COUNTY – 30,871 doses administered
- SUSSEX COUNTY – 13,151 doses administered
- UNION COUNTY – 38,734 doses administered
- COUNTY DE WARREN – 8,018 doses administered
- UNKNOWN COUNTY – 25,732 doses administered
- OUT OF STATE – 29,010 doses administered
HOSPITALIZATIONS
There were 2,901 inpatients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases at 71 New Jersey hospitals on Saturday night. It’s 174 less than the day before.
This included 519 in critical or intensive care (14 fewer than the night before), with 355 on the fans (4 less).
According to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard, 423 COVID-19 patients were also discharged on Friday.
Murphy said any hospitalization of more than 5,000 patients would likely trigger new rounds of restrictions. But the number of people hospitalized has mostly declined slowly in recent days after reaching a more than seven-month high of 3,873 people on December 22.
The state peaked at more than 8,000 hospitalizations in April.
SCHOOL CASE
At least 629 students and staff from 131 New Jersey school districts have contracted COVID-19 during outbreaks at school, according to the latest update from state health officials.
This is an increase of 10 districts from the previous weekly report. There are now confirmed school-based outbreaks in all 21 counties, although the state does not identify individual school districts.
These figures do not include students or staff suspected of having been infected outside of school or cases that cannot be confirmed as epidemics at school. Although the numbers continue to rise every week, Murphy said school epidemic statistics remained lower than state officials expected when schools reopened for in-person classes.
New Jersey defines school epidemics as cases where contact tracers determined that two or more students or school staff had caught or transmitted COVID-19 in class or during school activities at school.
BREAKDOWN BY AGE
Broken down by age, the 30-49 year olds represent the largest percentage of New Jersey residents who have contracted the virus (31.1%), followed by 50-64 year olds (23.5%), 18-29 (19, 3%), 65 -79 (11.1%), 5-17 (7.9%), 80 years and over (5.3%) and 0-4 (1.6%).
On average, the virus has been deadlier for older residents, particularly those with pre-existing conditions. Almost half of the deaths from COVID-19 in the state were among residents aged 80 and over (47.49%), followed by those aged 65 to 79 (32.56%), from 50 to 64 (15.52%), 30 to 49 (4.05%), 18 to 29. (0.36%), 5-17 (0%) and 0-4 (0.02%).
At least 7,748 of the deaths from COVID-19 in the state have occurred among residents and staff of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. That number has grown at a faster rate again in recent months, with deaths in nursing homes across the state nearly tripling in December.
There are currently active outbreaks in 425 facilities, resulting in 7,514 active cases among residents and 8,102 among staff.
WORLDWIDE FIGURES
As of early Sunday, there had been more than 102.7 million positive COVID-19 tests worldwide, according to an ongoing count from Johns Hopkins University. Over 2.2 million people haI died from complications from the coronavirus.
The United States has reported the most cases, at over 26 million, and the most deaths, at over 440,000.
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