New Jersey health officials on Friday reported another 3,544 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 40 additional confirmed deaths as the state prepares to expand those eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine next week to transportation workers and other groups and the number of people fully-vaccinated nears 1 million.
Gov. Phil Murphy announced the latest update in the outbreak during an event in Elizabeth on the recently signed stimulus law. More than 2.8 million vaccine doses have been administered as of Friday morning including 947,000 who have received both doses and are considered fully-vaccinated.
The seven-day average for new confirmed cases is now 2,931, up 2% from a week ago, but down 11% from a month ago.
The statewide rate of transmission decreased slightly to 1.02 from 1.03 on Thursday. Any number over 1 indicates that the outbreak is growing, with each new case leading to at least one other case. The rate had been below 1 for weeks before pushing above that mark last week.
New Jersey’s hospitals reported 1,884 patients as of Thursday night. That’s down by more than half since a recent peak on Dec. 22.
In all, New Jersey has now reported 736,065 confirmed coronavirus cases out of more than 11 million PCR tests in the year since the state reported its first case March 4, 2020. There have also been 94,783 positive antigen tests. Those cases are considered probable, and health officials have warned that positive antigen tests could overlap with the confirmed PCR tests because they are sometimes given in tandem.
The state of 9 million people has reported 23,854 residents have died from complications related to COVID-19, including 21,380 confirmed deaths and 2,474 fatalities considered probable.
Health officials also reported Wednesday the first case of the coronavirus variant initially identified in South Africa.
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VACCINATIONS BY COUNTY
- ATLANTIC COUNTY - 89,818 doses administered
- BERGEN COUNTY - 326,341 doses administered
- BURLINGTON COUNTY - 150,584 doses administered
- CAMDEN COUNTY - 170,028 doses administered
- CAPE MAY COUNTY - 41,810 doses administered
- CUMBERLAND COUNTY - 40,610 doses administered
- ESSEX COUNTY - 223,312 doses administered
- GLOUCESTER COUNTY - 105,947 doses administered
- HUDSON COUNTY - 137,963 doses administered
- HUNTERDON COUNTY - 39,490 doses administered
- MERCER COUNTY - 99,020 doses administered
- MIDDLESEX COUNTY - 230,385 doses administered
- MONMOUTH COUNTY - 219,716 doses administered
- MORRIS COUNTY - 205,618 doses administered
- OCEAN COUNTY - 177,185 doses administered
- PASSAIC COUNTY - 127,330 doses administered
- SALEM COUNTY - 19,417 doses administered
- SOMERSET COUNTY - 114,180 doses administered
- SUSSEX COUNTY - 45,258 doses administered
- UNION COUNTY - 148,410 doses administered
- WARREN COUNTY - 29,159 doses administered
- UNKNOWN COUNTY - 7,541 doses administered
- OUT OF STATE - 74,609 doses administered
HOSPITALIZATIONS
There were 1,884 patients hospitalized with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases New Jersey’s 71 hospitals as of Thursday night — 52 fewer than the previous night, according to the state’s dashboard.
That included 401 in critical or intensive care (five more than the previous night), with 236 on ventilators (six more).
There were also 257 COVID-19 patients discharged Thursday.
Hospitalizations peaked at more than 8,000 patients during the first wave of the pandemic in April.
SCHOOL CASES
New Jersey has reported 173 in-school coronavirus outbreaks, which have resulted in 804 cases among students, teachers and school staff this academic year, according to the state’s dashboard.
The state defines school outbreaks as cases where contact tracers determined two or more students or school staff caught or transmitted COVID-19 in the classroom or during academic activities at school. Those numbers do not include students or staff believed to have been infected outside school or cases that can’t be confirmed as in-school outbreaks.
There are about 1.4 million public school students and teachers across the state, though teaching methods amid the outbreak have varied, with some schools teaching in-person, some using a hybrid format and others remaining all-remote.
Murphy said Monday that with teachers soon eligible to get the vaccine, officials are “fully expecting” schools across New Jersey to return for in-person learning “safely and responsibly” when the next school year starts in September, if not sooner.
AGE BREAKDOWN
Broken down by age, those 30 to 49 years old make up the largest percentage of New Jersey residents who have caught the virus (31%), followed by those 50-64 (23.2%), 18-29 (19.6%), 65-79 (10.8%), 5-17 (8.5%), 80 and older (4.9%), and 0-4 (1.8%).
On average, the virus has been more deadly for older residents, especially those with preexisting conditions. Nearly half the state’s COVID-19 deaths have been among residents 80 and older (47.20%), followed by those 65-79 (32.79%), 50-64 (15.59%), 30-49 (4.03%), 18-29 (0.37%), 5-17 (0%), and 0-4 (0.02%).
At least 7,923 of the state’s COVID-19 deaths have been among residents and staff members at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.
There are currently active outbreaks at 309 facilities, resulting in 6,099 active cases among residents and 6,214 among staffers.
GLOBAL NUMBERS
As of Friday, there have been more than 118.6 million positive COVID-19 tests across the world, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University. More than 2.63 million people have died from coronavirus-related complications.
The U.S. has reported the most cases, at more than 29.2 million, and the most deaths, at more than 530,800.
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