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New Jersey reported 3,783 more confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 78 more deaths on Saturday, as the number of people vaccinated continued to rise while nearly 250,000 doses of vaccine reserved for the state are expected to help fight the deployment.
Gov. Phil Murphy’s latest update was posted on Twitter and comes a day after legislation was signed to expand outdoor dining options for restaurants, bars and distilleries. In addition, the increase in indoor catering capacity from 25% to 35% went into effect on Friday morning. Other sites, including gyms, personal care services and casinos, were included in the 35% expansion.
The 71 hospitals in New Jersey have reported 2,895 patients hospitalized with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19, down 21 patients from the previous day. The number of patients in intensive care rose to 737, an increase of 222 from the previous day.
New Jersey has now lost 21,964 residents in the nearly 11-month epidemic – 19,777 confirmed deaths and 2,187 considered probable. The state reported 429 confirmed deaths in the first six days of February. The death toll for January was 2,377 confirmed deaths, the highest in a month since May.
The total number of confirmed cases is now 641,087 out of more than 9.5 million PCR tests. There were also 76,748 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 administered in tandem.
The transmission rate reported on Friday fell to 0.9, from 0.92 on Friday. Any number less than 1 indicates that the epidemic is slowing down.
The positivity rate for tests performed on Tuesday, the most recent day available, was 8.53% out of the 30,160 tests administered. However, test numbers for the first half of this week are likely skewed by a massive snowstorm that dumped more than a foot of snow with totals of over 30 inches in parts of the Garden State.
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COUNTY-BY-COUNTY NUMBERS (sorted by most recent)
- Bergen County: 62,195 confirmed cases (424 new), 2,234 confirmed deaths (273 probable)
- Middlesex County: 61,690 confirmed cases (416 new), 1,757 confirmed deaths (221 probable)
- Ocean County: 46,570 confirmed cases (334 new), 1,611 confirmed deaths (104 probable)
- Monmouth County: 46,029 confirmed cases (310 new), 1,199 confirmed deaths (109 probable)
- Hudson County: 58,113 confirmed cases (298 new), 1,720 confirmed deaths (173 probable)
- Essex County: 61,417 confirmed cases (292 new), 2,310 confirmed deaths (257 probable)
- Passaic County: 48,483 confirmed cases (224 new), 1,455 confirmed deaths (163 probable)
- Union County: 45,494 confirmed cases (219 new), 1,505 confirmed deaths (190 probable)
- Morris County: 28,705 confirmed cases (192 new), 860 confirmed deaths (216 probable)
- Atlantic County: 17,920 confirmed cases (147 new), 483 confirmed deaths (24 probable)
- Burlington County: 28,727 confirmed cases (139 new), 647 confirmed deaths (49 probable)
- Mercer County: 24,275 confirmed cases (131 new), 795 confirmed deaths (39 probable)
- Somerset County: 16,869 confirmed cases (125 new), 659 confirmed deaths (97 probable)
- Camden County: 37,126 confirmed cases (119 new), 981 confirmed deaths (71 probable)
- Gloucester County: 19,614 confirmed cases (82 new), 490 confirmed deaths (22 probable)
- Cumberland County: 11,134 confirmed cases (80 new), 298 confirmed deaths (18 probable)
- Hunterdon County: 5,560 confirmed cases (72 new), 98 confirmed deaths (54 probable)
- Sussex County: 7,129 confirmed cases (59 new), 203 confirmed deaths (57 probable)
- Cape May County: 3,339 confirmed cases (42 new), 145 confirmed deaths (22 probable)
- Warren County: 5,690 confirmed cases (35 new), 189 confirmed deaths (16 probable)
- Salem County: 3,998 confirmed cases (12 new), 138 confirmed deaths (12 probable)
HOSPITALIZATIONS
As of Friday evening, 2,895 patients were hospitalized with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 in 71 hospitals in New Jersey.
This included 737 in critical or intensive care, with 380 in ventilators. There were also 333 COVID-19 patients discharged on Friday.
Hospitalizations had slowly declined in recent weeks. Monday marked the first time in eight days the number of people hospitalized increased. The state peaked at more than 8,000 hospitalizations in April.
SCHOOL CASE
New Jersey officials have reported six new outbreaks of the virus at school, bringing the total to 137 outbreaks and 655 related cases among students, teachers and school staff, according to the latest figures.
Outbreaks – defined as cases in which people have been confirmed to have caught or transmitted the virus in class or during academic activities – have been reported in all 21 counties, according to the COVID-19 dashboard of the State.
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, 4%), 65 -79 (11.1%), 5-17 (8%), 80 years and over (5.2%) 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 (46.9%), followed by those aged 65 to 79 (33.3%), from 50 to 64 years (15.5%), 30 to 49 years (3.9%), 18 to 29 years. (0.4%), 5-17 (0%) and 0-4 (0%).
At least 7,797 COVID-19 deaths 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 419 facilities, resulting in 7,055 active cases among residents and 7,166 among staff.
WORLDWIDE FIGURES
As of Friday morning, there were more than 10,535 million positive COVID-19 tests across the world, according to an ongoing count from Johns Hopkins University. More than 2.3 million people have died from complications from the coronavirus.
The United States has reported the most cases, at over 26.81 million, and the most deaths, at over 459,500.
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Rodrigo Torrejon can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on twitter @rodrigotorrejon.
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