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New Jersey health officials on Thursday reported 5,967 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 94 more deaths as the state expanded immunization eligibility to 4 million more people for the first time.
The state of 9 million people has now lost 20,253 residents to the COVID-19 epidemic – 18,162 confirmed deaths and 2,091 considered probable. New Jersey has already announced 1,063 confirmed deaths this month, after 1,890 in December.
Governor Phil Murphy announced the latest update on Twitter. The state’s next coronavirus briefing is due in Trenton on Friday.
The statewide COVID-19 transmission rate remained the same Thursday at 1.10. A transmission rate greater than 1 indicates that the epidemic is expanding.
The seven-day average for new confirmed cases is 5,630, down slightly from the new high set a day earlier, but up 17% from a week ago and 13% from it a month ago.
Statewide hospitalizations for the virus declined on Thursday after a three-day increase. Hospitalizations remain well below the more than 8,000 patients since the peak of the first wave in the spring, although health officials fear that a recent increase in cases is likely to be felt in hospitals next week and into February.
The positivity rate for tests administered on Saturday, the most recent day available, was 13.53% out of 25,913 tests. The positivity rate has been at least 10% since December 22.
New has now reported a total of 549,840 confirmed cases out of more than 8.4 million tests administered since authorities announced the state’s first case on March 4. which may overlap with confirmed PCR tests.
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VACCINATIONS
New Jersey has received 654,900 doses of the coronavirus vaccine, according to figures tracked by the CDC. State officials reported that 287,840 doses were administered – including 253,775 first doses and 33,898 second doses, according to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard. (Some doses were recorded without a dose number so the totals did not add up.)
The state has been criticized for rolling out vaccinations too slowly. Officials point out that there may be an undercoverage in the number of vaccines given due to reporting delays and that New Jersey, like other states, depends on the federal government for its supply.
Murphy announced on Wednesday that people over 65, as well as people with chronic health conditions and smokers are now eligible for the vaccine.
Officials said the doses should be available to the general public by April or May. Health officials have said they hope to vaccinate 70% of its adult residents – about 4.7 million people – by the end of May.
In recent days, the state has opened the first two of its six “mega-sites” planned for mass vaccinations. There are also vaccines currently available at 128 locations statewide, including local health departments, ShopRite stores, and pharmacies.
More than 1.2 million people have signed up to receive their vaccine when they become eligible on Wednesday.
CAS COUNTY-BY-COUNTY (sorted by most recent)
- Middlesex County: 52,202 confirmed cases (611 new), 1,567 confirmed deaths (216 probable)
- Essex County: 53,161 confirmed cases (591 new), 2,202 confirmed deaths (257 probable)
- Bergen County: 53,264 confirmed cases (573 new), 2,130 confirmed deaths (267 probable)
- Monmouth County: 38,325 confirmed cases (524 new), 1,038 confirmed deaths (102 probable)
- Hudson County: 50,262 confirmed cases (519 new), 1,599 confirmed deaths (170 probable)
- Ocean County: 38,405 confirmed cases (499 new), 1,410 confirmed deaths (91 probable)
- Camden County: 32,833 confirmed cases (342 new), 845 confirmed deaths (67 probable)
- Union County: 40,694 confirmed cases (335 new), 1,421 confirmed deaths (186 probable)
- Passaic County: 43,423 confirmed cases (301 new), 1,365 confirmed deaths (159 probable)
- Morris County: 23,620 confirmed cases (284 new), 817 confirmed deaths (194 probable)
- Burlington County: 24,973 confirmed cases (230 new), 607 confirmed deaths (52 probable)
- Gloucester County: 16,755 confirmed cases (219 new), 419 confirmed deaths (21 probable)
- Atlantic County: 14,583 confirmed cases (216 new), 382 confirmed deaths (18 probable)
- Mercer County: 21,161 confirmed cases (160 new), 726 confirmed deaths (38 probable)
- Somerset County: 14,456 confirmed cases (149 new), 612 confirmed deaths (94 probable)
- Cumberland County: 9,270 confirmed cases (106 new), 243 confirmed deaths (12 probable)
- Sussex County: 5,677 confirmed cases (78 new), 183 confirmed deaths (51 probable)
- Warren County: 4,704 confirmed cases (59 new), 173 confirmed deaths (14 probable)
- Hunterdon County: 4,572 confirmed cases (51 new), 88 confirmed deaths (54 probable)
- Salem County: 3,410 confirmed cases (48 new), 113 confirmed deaths (8 probable)
- Cape May County: 2,780 confirmed cases (41 new), 130 confirmed deaths (20 probable)
HOSPITALIZATIONS
There were 3,638 patients hospitalized in New Jersey with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases as of Wednesday evening. It was 88 less than the night before.
This included 644 people in critical or intensive care (six fewer than the night before), including 456 in ventilators (four more).
According to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard, 495 COVID-19 patients were discharged on Wednesday.
SCHOOL CASE
There have been 111 school coronavirus outbreaks in New Jersey involving 557 students, teachers and staff since the school year began in late August, according to the state dashboard.
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 each week, Murphy said school epidemic statistics remained lower than state officials expected when schools reopened in-person classes.
New Jersey defines school outbreaks as cases where contact tracers have determined that two or more students or school staff have caught or transmitted COVID-19 in the classroom or during school activities at the school. school.
The number of New Jersey school districts with distance learning has increased as students return from winter break, Murphy said Monday.
There are 339 districts that started remotely in 2021 – an increase of 18 all remote districts from December 21. Only 77 school districts are returning with full in-person instruction (up from 82 on Dec. 21), and 348 are returning with a hybrid of in-person or distance education (up from 362).
Another 47 districts are using a combination of in-person, hybrid, or remote services in multiple buildings – one more than December 21.
BREAKDOWN BY AGE
Disaggregated by age, those aged 30 to 49 make up the largest percentage of New Jersey residents who have contracted the virus (31.3%), followed by those aged 50-64 (23.8%), 18-29 (19, 2%), 65 -79 (11.2%), 80 years and over (5.5%), 5-17 (7.3%) and 0-4 (1.5%).
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 (32.29%), from 50 to 64 (15.68%), 30-49 (4.14%), 18-29 (0.36%), 5-17 (0%) and 0-4 (0.03%) .
At least 7,606 of the state’s COVID-19 deaths 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 428 facilities, resulting in 6,510 active cases among residents and 7,034 among staff.
WORLDWIDE FIGURES
As of Thursday morning, there were more than 92.4 million positive COVID-19 tests across the world, according to an ongoing count from Johns Hopkins University. More than 1.98 million people have died from complications from the coronavirus.
The United States has reported the most cases, at more than 23 million, and the most deaths, at more than 384,700.
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