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New Jersey health officials on Tuesday reported 3,164 more confirmed cases of coronavirus and 92 more deaths, with the latest vaccination update showing more than 240,000 residents have received both vaccines and are fully vaccinated.
The seven-day average for new confirmed positive tests is now 3,050, down 22% from a week ago and 39% from a month ago. The new confirmed cases reported on Tuesday include a catch-up from the day before, when 2,218 positive tests were reported, Gov. Phil Murphy said.
“Today’s case counts include some records not included in yesterday’s counts due to an error processing electronic lab reports,” Murphy said.
New Jersey has now lost 22,103 residents in the 11-month epidemic – 19,916 confirmed deaths and 2,187 considered probable. The state reported 572 confirmed deaths in the first nine 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 650,263 out of more than 9.6 million PCR tests. There were also 78,041 positive antigen 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.
The transmission rate reported on Tuesday was 0.83, down from 0.85 on Monday and 0.87 a day earlier. This is the lowest transmission rate since the end of August, and any number below 1 indicates the epidemic is slowing.
The latest figures come a day after health officials said the number of new cases of the highly contagious variant of the virus that was first discovered in the UK continued to rise in New Jersey.
There have been a total of at least 31 cases in 11 identified counties in New Jersey so far, Department of Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli said on Monday. The first two cases of the variant in New Jersey were identified last month.
But with the second wave of the outbreak continuing to subside, Murphy said on Monday that the overall numbers “point in the right direction” and hinted that he may further lift restrictions put in place to stop the spread. The number of new cases has fallen dramatically over the past several weeks, as has the number of people seeking treatment at the state’s 71 hospitals.
The governor did not disclose what action he would take and he also warned that new variants of the virus that spread more easily could turn the tide.
But he has always stressed that preventing hospitals from being hit by surge capacity has been one of the main reasons for the unprecedented restrictions put in place almost a year ago. Hospitalizations are steadily declining after reaching a second peak in mid-December.
The state peaked at more than 8,000 hospitalizations in April.
Hospitalizations from 02/07/21
CORONAVIRUS RESOURCES: Live map tracking | Bulletin | Home page
CAS COUNTY-BY-COUNTY (sorted by most recent)
- Ocean County: 47,506 confirmed cases (417 new), 1,625 confirmed deaths (104 probable)
- Monmouth County: 46,993 confirmed cases (325 new), 1,210 confirmed deaths (109 probable)
- Middlesex County: 62,670 confirmed cases (324 new), 1,773 confirmed deaths (221 probable)
- Bergen County: 63,050 confirmed cases (317 new), 2,248 confirmed deaths (273 probable)
- Hudson County: 58,814 confirmed cases (264 new), 1,735 confirmed deaths (173 probable)
- Essex County: 62,365 confirmed cases (238 new), 2,319 confirmed deaths (257 probable)
- Morris County: 29,255 confirmed cases (192 new), 867 confirmed deaths (216 probable)
- Union County: 45,929 confirmed cases (164 new), 1,512 confirmed deaths (190 probable)
- Passaic County: 48,938 confirmed cases (151 new), 1,461 confirmed deaths (163 probable)
- Atlantic County: 18,250 confirmed cases (122 new), 490 confirmed deaths (24 probable)
- Burlington County: 29,120 confirmed cases (116 new), 648 confirmed deaths (49 probable)
- Camden County: 37,434 confirmed cases (94 new), 992 confirmed deaths (71 probable)
- Mercer County: 24,567 confirmed cases (89 new), 803 confirmed deaths (39 probable)
- Somerset County: 17,149 confirmed cases (85 new), 660 confirmed deaths (97 probable)
- Gloucester County: 19,820 confirmed cases (64 new), 489 confirmed deaths (22 probable)
- Hunterdon County: 5,677 confirmed cases (49 new), 100 confirmed deaths (54 probable)
- Cumberland County: 11,254 confirmed cases (45 new), 301 confirmed deaths (18 probable)
- Sussex County: 7,267 confirmed cases (35 new), 205 confirmed deaths (57 probable)
- Warren County: 5,788 confirmed cases (26 new), 189 confirmed deaths (16 probable)
- Cape May County: 3,389 confirmed cases (18 new), 148 confirmed deaths (22 probable)
- Salem County: 4,017 confirmed cases (9 new), 141 confirmed deaths (12 probable)
VACCINATIONS
So far, 1,085,595 doses of the vaccine have been administered in New Jersey, according to the state’s Scoreboard. Of these, 842,971 was the first of two doses people will receive.
That’s over 1.48 million doses the state has received from the federal government, according to a running tally from the federal Centers for Disease Control.
VACCINATIONS BY COUNTY
- ATLANTIC COUNTY – 33,626 doses administered
- BERGEN COUNTY – 120,724 doses administered
- BURLINGTON COUNTY – 54,339 doses administered
- CAMDEN COUNTY – 62,748 doses administered
- CAPE MAY COUNTY – 16,044 doses administered
- CUMBERLAND COUNTY – 15,468 doses administered
- ESSEX COUNTY – 85,236 doses administered
- GLOUCESTER COUNTY – 38056 doses administered
- HUDSON COUNTY – 49,180 doses administered
- HUNTERDON COUNTY – 14,788 doses administered
- MERCER COUNTY – 30,482 doses administered
- MIDDLESEX COUNTY – 81,423 doses administered
- MONMOUTH COUNTY – 82,444 doses administered
- MORRIS COUNTY – 79,202 doses administered
- OCEAN COUNTY – 67,140 doses administered
- PASSAIC COUNTY – 51,037 doses administered
- SALEM COUNTY – 6,997 doses administered
- SOMERSET COUNTY – 42,486 doses administered
- SUSSEX COUNTY – 17,043 doses administered
- UNION COUNTY – 53,437 doses administered
- WARREN COUNTY – 10,304 doses administered
- UNKNOWN COUNTY – 35,575 doses administered
- OUT OF STATE – 37,816 doses administered
HOSPITALIZATIONS
There were 2,827 patients hospitalized with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 at 71 New Jersey hospitals as of Monday evening, four fewer than the night before.
This included 544 in critical or intensive care (the same as the day before), including 360 in ventilators (16 fewer than the day before).
According to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard, 166 COVID-19 patients were also discharged on Monday.
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 outbreaks as cases where contact tracers have determined that two or more students or school staff had caught or transmitted COVID-19 in class or during academic activities at school.
There are an estimated 1.4 million students and teachers statewide, although teaching methods amid the outbreak have varied, some are in person, some are hybrid, and others are all distant.
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 7,713 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 435 facilities, resulting in 7,338 active cases among residents and 7,929 among staff.
WORLDWIDE FIGURES
As of Tuesday morning, there had been more than 106.5 million positive COVID-19 tests worldwide, according to an ongoing count from Johns Hopkins University. More than 2.32 million people have died from complications from the coronavirus.
The United States has reported the most cases, at more than 27 million, and the most deaths, at more than 465,000.
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