New Jersey reports 4,626 new COVID cases, killing an additional 74 after vaccination passes 761K doses

New Jersey reported an additional 4,626 confirmed cases on Saturday Include Coronavirus 74 more people died as hospitalizations continued to decline, with vaccinations exceeding 761,000 shots administered.

Hospitalization has dropped to the lowest level of 3,075 since November 29th. The positive rate of tests performed on the latest available days, Monday and Tuesday, was 8.92% of the 54,917 tests performed.

Governor Phil Murphy The latest figures were released on Twitter on Saturday afternoon, with the state averaging about 25,000 vaccinations a day.

In New Jersey, an outbreak of nearly 11 months is believed to have killed 21,455 people, 19,326, and 2,129. The death toll in January was 2,348, the highest in any month since May.

The infection rate remained at 0.91 for 4 consecutive days. A number less than 1 indicates that the outbreak is slowing down.

The total number of confirmed cases is currently 619,732 out of more than 9.2 million positive tests. There was also a 72,811 positive antigen test that the state recently began to publicly report. These cases are considered likely, and health officials warn that positive antigen tests are sometimes done in parallel and may overlap with confirmed PCR tests.

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vaccination

To date, 761,283 vaccinations have been given in New Jersey. State dashboard.. Of them, 637,844 were the first of the two doses people received.

This is one of the more than 1.23 million doses the state received from the federal government, according to running tally by the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

All six states Vaccine megasite It is currently open with about 200 other locations throughout the state, but some megasites had to shut down for a day after the dose was exhausted.

Murphy said Wednesday that the state could expect 100,000 to about 130,000 doses from the federal government over the next three weeks, but demand is still well above the state’s supply.

Vaccinations by county

• Atlantic County-22,353 doses
• Bergen County-84,230 doses
• Burlington County-37,345 doses
• Camden County-44,871 dose
• Cape May County-10,765 doses
• CUMBERLAND COUNTY-11,305 doses
• Essex County-59,964 doses
• Gloucester County-25,449 doses
• Hudson County-35,509 doses
• Hunterdon County-10,508 doses
• Mercer County-20,131 doses
• Middle Sex County-56,838 doses
• Monmouth County-57,468 doses
• Morris County-56,667 doses
• Ocean County-46,567 doses
• Passaic County-35,713 doses
• SALE MCOUNTY-4,498 doses
• Somerset County-29,636 doses
• Sussex County-12,647 doses
• Union County-37,539 doses
• Warren County-7,871 doses
• Unknown county-24,955 doses
• Out-of-state-28,454 doses

COVID number for each county (Sort in most new cases)

Middle Sex County: 59,448 confirmed cases (549 new), 1,704 confirmed deaths (217 possible)

Bergen County: 59,878 confirmed cases (479 new), 2,201 confirmed deaths (268 possible)

Essex County: 59,622 confirmed cases (437 new), 2,283 confirmed deaths (255 possible)

Hudson County: 56,366 confirmed cases (414 new), 1,694 confirmed deaths (171 possible)

Ocean County: 44,512 confirmed cases (408 new), 1,559 confirmed deaths (90 possible)

Monmouth County: 44,436 confirmed cases (348 new), 1,151 confirmed deaths (108 possible)

Morris County: 27,510 confirmed cases (278 new), 844 confirmed deaths (possibly 207)

Passaic County: 46,995 confirmed cases (235 new), 1,437 confirmed deaths (163 possible)

Union County: 44,346 confirmed cases (235 new), 1,486 confirmed deaths (possibly 186)

Camden County: 36,278 confirmed cases (186 new), 948 confirmed deaths (69 possible)

Burlington County: 27,750 confirmed cases (178 new), 637 confirmed deaths (48 possible)

Mercer County: 23,603 confirmed cases (177 new), 779 confirmed deaths (38 possible)

Atlantic County: 17,145 confirmed cases (126 new), 450 confirmed deaths (22 possible)

Somerset County: 16,239 confirmed cases (116 new), 648 confirmed deaths (96 possible)

Gloucester County: 19,050 confirmed cases (104 new), 473 confirmed deaths (22 possible)

Sussex County: 6,875 confirmed cases (75 new), 199 confirmed deaths (55 possible)

Cumberland County: 10,715 confirmed cases (65 new), 287 confirmed deaths (14 possible)

Warren County: 5,457 confirmed cases (57 new), 183 confirmed deaths (15 possible)

Hunterdon County: 5,310 confirmed cases (53 new), 93 confirmed deaths (54 possible)

Salem County: 3,885 confirmed cases (36 new), 129 confirmed deaths (11 possible)

Cape May County: 3,185 confirmed cases (24 new), 141 confirmed deaths (20 possible)

Hospitalization

As of Friday night, 3,075 patients were admitted with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases across 71 hospitals in New Jersey. 41 less than the day before.

This included 533 in critical care or intensive care (30 less than the night before) and 359 in ventilator (19 less).

There were also 367 COVID-19 patients discharged on Friday. State COVID-19 Dashboard..

Hospitalization of more than 5,000 patients is likely to impose new restrictions, Murphy said. However, the number of inpatients has declined almost slowly these days after reaching a peak of more than 7 months at 3,873 on December 22nd.

The state set a record for more than 8,000 hospitalizations in April.

For school

At least 629 students and staff from 131 school districts in New Jersey I caught COVID-19 at school According to the outbreak Latest updates from state health authorities..

This is an increase of 10 districts from the previous weekly report. The state has not identified individual school districts, but all 21 counties are currently confirmed to have outbreaks within the school.

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. While 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.

Breakdown of age

Malfunction By age, 30-49 years old account for the largest proportion (31.1%) of New Jersey residents infected with the virus, followed by 50-64 (23.5%), 18-29 (19.3%), 65-79 (11.1). Continue. %), 5-17 (7.9%), 80 and above (5.3%), and 0-4 (1.6%).

On average, the virus was 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 (32%), 50-64 (15.6%), 30-49 (3.9%), 18- 29 follows. (0.4%), 5-17 (0%), and 0-4 (0%).

At least 7,748 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 and Deaths in state nursing homes almost triple in December..

Currently there is an active outbreak At 425 facilitiesAs a result, there were 7,514 active cases among residents and 8,102 active cases among staff.

Global number

As of early Saturday, there were more than 102.2 million positive COVID-19 tests worldwide. Running Tally by Johns Hopkins University.. More than 2.2 million people have died of coronavirus-related complications.

The United States reports the most cases in more than 25.9 million and the most deaths in more than 436,900.

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