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New Jersey on Saturday reported 4,626 more confirmed cases of coronavirus and 74 more deaths, with vaccination doses exceeding 761,000 injections given and hospitalizations continuing to decline.
Hospitalizations fell to 3,075, the lowest since November 29. The positivity rate for tests performed on Monday Tuesday, the most recent day available, was 8.92% of the 54,917 tests performed.
Gov. Phil Murphy announced the latest figures on Twitter on Saturday afternoon and the state administers about 25,000 doses of the vaccine per day on average.
New Jersey has now lost 21,455 residents in the nearly 11-month epidemic, with 19,326 deaths confirmed and 2,129 considered probable. The death toll for January rose to 2,348 confirmed deaths, the highest number in a month since May.
The transmission rate remained at 0.91 for the fourth consecutive day. Any number less than 1 indicates that the epidemic is slowing down.
The total number of confirmed cases is now 619,732 out of more than 9.2 million positive tests. There were also 72,811 positive antigen tests, which the state recently began making public. These cases are considered probable, and health officials have warned that positive antigen tests could overlap with confirmed PCR tests as they are sometimes given 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
So far, 761,283 doses of the vaccine have been administered in New Jersey, according to the state’s Scoreboard. Of that number, 637,844 was 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 running tally from the federal Centers for Disease Control.
The state’s six immunization mega-sites have now opened with about 200 other sites across the state, although some mega-sites had to suspend operations for a day after running out of doses.
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 – 22,353 doses administered
- BERGEN COUNTY – 84,230 doses administered
- BURLINGTON COUNTY – 37,345 doses administered
- CAMDEN COUNTY – 44,871 doses administered
- CAPE MAY COUNTY – 10,765 doses administered
- CUMBERLAND COUNTY – 11,305 doses administered
- ESSEX COUNTY – 59,964 doses administered
- GLOUCESTER COUNTY – 25,449 doses administered
- HUDSON COUNTY – 35,509 doses administered
- HUNTERDON COUNTY – 10,508 doses administered
- MERCER COUNTY – 20,131 doses administered
- MIDDLESEX COUNTY – 56,838 doses administered
- MONMOUTH COUNTY – 57,468 doses administered
- MORRIS COUNTY – 56,667 doses administered
- OCEAN COUNTY – 46,567 doses administered
- PASSAIC COUNTY – 35,713 doses administered
- SALEM COUNTY – 4,498 doses administered
- SOMERSET COUNTY – 29,636 doses administered
- SUSSEX COUNTY – 12,647 doses administered
- UNION COUNTY – 37,539 doses administered
- COUNTY OF WARREN – 7,871 doses administered
- UNKNOWN COUNTY – 24,955 doses administered
- OUT OF STATE – 28,454 doses administered
COVID COUNTY-BY-COUNTY NUMBERS (sorted by most new cases)
Middlesex County: 59,448 confirmed cases (549 new), 1,704 confirmed deaths (217 probable)
Bergen County: 59,878 confirmed cases (479 new), 2,201 confirmed deaths (268 probable)
Essex County: 59,622 confirmed cases (437 new), 2,283 confirmed deaths (255 probable)
Hudson County: 56,366 confirmed cases (414 new), 1,694 confirmed deaths (171 probable)
ยท Ocean County: 44,512 confirmed cases (408 new), 1,559 confirmed deaths (90 probable)
Monmouth County: 44,436 confirmed cases (348 new), 1,151 confirmed deaths (108 probable)
Morris County: 27,510 confirmed cases (278 new), 844 confirmed deaths (207 probable)
Passaic County: 46,995 confirmed cases (235 new), 1,437 confirmed deaths (163 probable)
Union County: 44,346 confirmed cases (235 new), 1,486 confirmed deaths (186 probable)
Camden County: 36,278 confirmed cases (186 new), 948 confirmed deaths (69 probable)
Burlington County: 27,750 confirmed cases (178 new), 637 confirmed deaths (48 probable)
Mercer County: 23,603 confirmed cases (177 new), 779 confirmed deaths (38 probable)
Atlantic County: 17,145 confirmed cases (126 new), 450 confirmed deaths (22 probable)
Somerset County: 16,239 confirmed cases (116 new), 648 confirmed deaths (96 probable)
Gloucester County: 19,050 confirmed cases (104 new), 473 confirmed deaths (22 probable)
Sussex County: 6,875 confirmed cases (75 new), 199 confirmed deaths (55 probable)
Cumberland County: 10,715 confirmed cases (65 new), 287 confirmed deaths (14 probable)
Warren County: 5,457 confirmed cases (57 new), 183 confirmed deaths (15 probable)
Hunterdon County: 5,310 confirmed cases (53 new), 93 confirmed deaths (54 probable)
Salem County: 3,885 confirmed cases (36 new), 129 confirmed deaths (11 probable)
Cape May County: 3,185 confirmed cases (24 new), 141 confirmed deaths (20 probable)
HOSPITALIZATIONS
There were 3,075 hospital patients with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 at 71 New Jersey hospitals as of Friday night. That’s 41 less than the day before.
This included 533 in critical or intensive care (30 less than the night before), including 359 in ventilators (19 less).
According to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard, 367 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 80 and older (47%), followed by those 65 to 79 (32%), 50 to 64 (15 , 6%), 30 to 49 (3.9%), 18 to 29. (0.4%), 5-17 (0%) and 0-4 (0%).
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 Saturday, there had been more than 102.2 million positive COVID-19 tests worldwide, according to an ongoing count from Johns Hopkins University. More than 2.2 million people have died from complications from the coronavirus.
The United States has reported the most cases, at more than 25.9 million, and the most deaths, at more than 436,900.
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Rodrigo Torrejon can be reached at [email protected].
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