New Jersey reports 3,511 new COVID cases and 23 deaths as vaccine demand remains high

New Jersey reported an additional 3,511 confirmed cases on Monday Include Coronavirus And 23 additional deaths Vaccination sites reported a significant surge in appointments With the recent expansion of qualifications.

Governor Phil Murphy Announce the latest numbers On social media..

According to state data, 9 million inhabitants lost 20,458 in the COVID-19 pandemic. 18,367 people have been identified and 2,091 people could die.

State-wide infection rate It was 1.12 for 3 consecutive days. Transmission rates above 1 indicate an outbreak, with a 7-day moving average of 5,148.

New Jersey recently extended its vaccine eligibility to residents aged 65 and over, residents of certain health conditions, and smokers, and created a backlog of bookings if the federal-promised vaccine did not come true.

4 out of 6 coronaviruses Vaccine megasite Opened throughout New Jersey to act as a vaccination hub.

The four open locations are Moorestown Mall in Burlington County, Rowan College of South Jersey in Gloucester County, New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Middlesex County, and Rockaway Townsquare in Morris County. Two additional sites will open later in East Rutherford and Atlantic City.

Each site currently only offers shots to priority groups, including medical professionals and EMS teams. Police officers and firefighters, Man 65 years of age or older, Chronic health people and smokers. State officials say each location is ultimately capable of immunizing thousands of people a week, but that’s not the case now because the federal government hasn’t provided enough doses.

Many vaccine sites throughout the state do not show availability of reservations because supply does not meet demand. State officials say more reservations will be available as New Jersey receives additional vaccines.

If you qualify, you can sign up directly with your vaccine provider. List provided by the Department of State, Donna Roysner, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health, said.

Includes those locations County and city sites, Individual hospitals, pharmacies, The location of ShopRite.

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vaccination

As of Sunday, there were at least 348,414 doses of vaccine in New Jersey, according to the report. State COVID-19 Dashboard.. Of them, 308,874 were the first of the two doses people received, and 39,330 was the second.

New Jersey faces criticism for having Slow rollout According to it, it continues to deal with the second wave of the pandemic, so it’s better than dozens of other states. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..

The state is issuing doses in stages.Authorities significantly expanded vaccine eligibility last week, but demand remains greater than supply and residents Scramble for rare appointments.. Over 4 million New Jersey residents Became a target..

Authorities emphasize that the state depends on and receives its supply from the federal government. Administer only 100,000 times a weekAlthough New Jersey has a capacity of 470,000 people a day.

Saturday Murphy Federal government said Does not offer the promised additional dose.

Hospitalization

As of Sunday night, there were 3,432 patients admitted to 71 hospitals in New Jersey with confirmed or suspected COVID-19, 313 fewer than the night before.

Critical care or intensive care included 632 (55 less than the night before) and ventilator 426 (40 less).

According to the report, 305 COVID-19 patients were discharged on Sunday. State COVID-19 Dashboard..

The governor states that hospitalization of more than 5,000 patients is likely to impose new restrictions.

However, state health commissioner Judith Persicily said Monday that authorities were not concerned about the surge in the number of people requiring hospitalization.

“Interestingly, our cases are increasing, mortality is increasing, but hospitalization is not increasing,” Persicily told reporters before a public event in Oldbridge.

“Hospitalization is fairly stable,” she said. “I think it’s still affecting older individuals. Almost 60% of our deaths are elderly, so they can be highly infectious and asymptomatic. Currently More than 50% are asymptomatic infections. Asymptomatic transmitters are probably affecting older vulnerable adults, which eventually end up in hospitals and mortality is significant. “

For school

Since the school year began in late August, there have been 111 outbreaks of school coronavirus involving 557 students, teachers and staff in New Jersey. Status dashboard..

These numbers do not include students or staff suspected of being infected outside of school, or cases that cannot be identified as outbreaks within school. Although numbers continue to grow weekly, Murphy says school outbreak statistics are below what state officials expected when schools reopened for face-to-face lessons.

New jersey defines Outbreak at school If the contact tracer determines that two or more students or school staff have caught or infected COVID-19 during academic activities in the classroom or at school.

Number of New Jersey School Districts All distance learning has increased Murphy said on Monday when the students returned from winter vacation.

There are 339 districts that started in remote areas in 2021, and all 18 remote districts have increased since December 21st. Only 77 school districts are back with full face-to-face instruction (down from 82 on December 21st) and 348 are back. Face-to-face or remote instruction hybrid (down from 362).

Another 47 districts are using face-to-face, hybrid, or all-remote combinations in multiple buildings, one more than December 21st.

Breakdown of age

Malfunction By age, 30-49 years old account for the largest proportion (31.2%) of New Jersey residents infected with the virus, followed by 50-64 (23.7%), 18-29 (19.3%), 65-79 (11.1). it continues. %), 5-17 (7.5%), 80 and above (5.4%), and 0-4 (1.6%).

On average, the virus is more deadly to the elderly, especially residents of existing conditions. Almost half of the state’s COVID-19 deaths are residents aged 80 and over (47%), 65-79 (33%), 50-64 (15.6%), 30-49 (4%), 18- 29 follows. (0.4%), 5-17 (0%), and 0-4 (0%).

At least 7,644 deaths from the state’s COVID-19 occur among residents and staff in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. That number has skyrocketed again in recent months Deaths in state nursing homes almost triple in December..

Currently there is an active outbreak At 426 facilitiesAs a result, there were 6,802 active cases for residents and 7,368 active cases for staff.

Global number

As of Monday morning, there were more than 95.17 million positive COVID-19 tests worldwide. Running Tally by Johns Hopkins University.. More than 2 million people have died of coronavirus-related complications.

The United States reports the most cases in more than 23.95 million and the most deaths in more than 397,600.

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