Another 4,170 new coronavirus cases and 24 additional deaths have been reported in New Jersey since the first batch of coronavirus vaccines were shipped from a production facility on Sunday.
The seven-day average for daily positive tests has dropped to 4,809 since Sunday, down 2% from a week earlier – but a second wave of the virus has spread across the state, up 59% from a month earlier.
The average has risen to around 5,000,000 in the past week – the highest during a nine-month outbreak – although tests were low during the initial wave of cases and potentially lowered the infection threshold.
Mortality has been confirmed in the first 13 days of December ——8 – higher than the combined average for the entire month of November (615) and October (231), September (178) and August Gust (238).
There was a slight increase in hospital admissions with 3,591 coronavirus patients by Friday night, more than double the number admitted to the hospital in early November.
The numbers come as the state prepares for the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine to be delivered in New Jersey this week. Vaccine reports began Sunday after emergency clearance was approved by federal regulators late Friday night.
The first dose of the vaccine will be given Tuesday at University H Hospital Spital in Newark, New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy said Sunday. The first 76,000 doses are reserved for health care workers and employees and residents of long-term care facilities.
Murphy gave positive news about the vaccine with caution about the possible severity of the outbreak in the coming weeks.
“For all the good news, the light and vaccine at the end of the tunnel exemplifies that whatever the number of weeks is going to be,” Murphy said in an interview with ABC Sunday morning. , Residents are told to continue to be cautious.
The state’s transmission rate remained stable on Sunday, standing at 1.15. Any number above 1 indicates an outbreak. Transmission rates rose for six days before stabilizing on Sunday.
Tuesday’s positive rate, available in recent days, was 10.8% based on the results of 44,609 tests. The rate has been above 10% for all except one day since November 25th. On Monday it was 9.92%.
The death toll from the outbreak reached 17,732, with 15,864 confirmed and 1,868 “probable” deaths. In New Jersey.5. A total of 66,4966 positive cases out of a million million tests have been reported, although this does not include the recently deployed rapid tests.
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As cases and hospital admissions continue to rise, Murphy says he is keeping all options open for new controls to slow the outbreak.
But he confirmed Friday that New Jersey “stays with what we’ve got” on indoor dining, with a 25% capacity limit and the need for indoor service ending every night at 10 p.m. Murphy also gave counties and municipalities the ability to order bars and restaurants to close as early as 8pm each night.
Murphy has said he is closely watching the hospital’s capacity when deciding whether to impose more orders to try and stop the spread. The governor said a month ago that he was focusing specifically on three possible bans on indoor dining, alternative surgeries in the hospital and indoor sports.
The governor has since ordered the suspension of all indoor organized sports at the youth, high school and adult entertainment levels. It started on December 5th and lasts at least until January. 2. He said he hoped indoor sports could resume next month, but he left the door open to extend the temporary ban.
On Wednesday, Murphy released two pairs of middle-case and worst-case scenarios for the second wave. The moderate forecast calls for New Jersey to hospitalize 6,300 to 9,100 daily cases and 5,700 to 7,100 patients in the next two months.
Hospitals
How many people have been hospitalized Saturday night was high compared to Friday, reaching its highest level since May 14 – when 3,706 people were being treated.
As of Saturday (48 more than the previous day) there were 3,591 patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases at hospitals1 hospitals in New Jersey.
Of those admitted to the hospital on Friday, 691 had serious or intensive care (one more than the previous night), including 448 on a ventilator (10 more).
There were 467 Coronavirus patients were discharged from hospitals on Friday, according to the state’s coronavirus dashboard.
School case
New Jersey officials in the state have reported an outbreak in 18 new schools and 103 new positive cases have been reported in the state, students, teachers and school staff, as the state has begun investigating how many people are being infected by Covid-19 in schools.
State officials said the names of the schools were not released to protect the privacy of children and school staff who are positively tested.
However, hundreds of school districts have declared cases of coronavirus and dozens of New Jersey schools have temporarily switched to all remote classes since the start of the school year, with state health officials saying only 88 schools have confirmed Kovid-19 outbreaks.
Since the beginning of the school year, a total of 388 cases of school broadcasting have been reported in those 88 schools.
Those numbers do not include students or staff believed to be infected outside the school, or cases that cannot be confirmed as an outbreak at the school.
Although the numbers continue to grow every week, Murphy said school outbreak figures remain below expectations of state officials when schools resume for individual classes. He said the expanded regulations for schools, which include social distance guidelines and strict mask requirements for classrooms, have made schools the safest places in the state.
But for the second week in a row, every area in New Jersey is orange on the state’s COVID-19 map, showing “high” virus activity across the state.
Color coding on maps by many school districts is being closely watched because if an area turns red, indicating “very” high “coronavirus activity, all schools in that region need to close classrooms and switch to all-remote education. Will, for state health guidelines.
Aged down
Broken due to age, those people aged 30 to 49, the highest percentage of New Jersey residents who have taken the virus (31.6%), followed by 50-64 (24%), 18-29 (19%), 65-79. (11.3%), 80 and above (6.1%), 5-17 (6.5%), and 0-4 (1.3%).
On average, the virus is more lethal to older residents, especially to pre-existing conditions. About half of the state’s covid-19 deaths occurred in people aged 80 and over (47.69%), followed by 65-79 (31.78%), 50-64 (15.84%), 30-49 (4.31%), 18-29. (0.37%), 5-17 (0%) and 0-4 (0.02%).
At least 7,373 deaths from COVID-19 in the state have occurred among residents and staff members in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. That number has been rising at an alarming rate in recent weeks.
Global number
As of Friday, there have been 71.8 million positive COVID-19 tests worldwide, according to a tele run by Johns Hopkins University. Coronavirus-related complications have killed 1.6 million people.
U.S. The highest number of cases was reported at 16 million and the highest number of deaths at 297,000.
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