Another 5,095 cases of coronavirus and 51 additional confirmed COVID-19 deaths have been reported in New Jersey on Christmas Day, while the statewide transmission rate has fallen further than the main benchmark of 1.
Government. Phil Murphy has urged citizens to keep gatherings with people in their immediate family bubble small during Christmas and New Year celebrations to avoid the post-holiday boom.
“Be safe as you celebrate the holidays. Social distance. Mask up, ”Murphy said in a tweet on Friday.
An additional 80 deaths were reported in the state on Thursday.
The statewide broadcast rate dropped from 0.96 to 0.95 on the 12th straight day. It is the lowest since September 2.
Any number above 1 means that each person in whom Kovid-19 occurs is spreading the disease to more than one person, and a rate below 1 is considered to be the key to suppressing the epidemic.
The number of patients admitted to the statewide hospital hospital confirmed by Thursday night or treated for suspected coronavirus cases dropped to 66969 patients. That’s much lower than the more than 8,000 patients at the peak of the first wave in April. The number of hospital admissions has reached over 3,500 since December 8.
The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care increased from 749 to 753, and the number on the ventilator remained the same at 524.
The seven-day average of daily new cases rose to 4,597 on Friday. It’s down 4% from a week ago, but up 12% from a month ago.
Officials say the largest percentage of recent new cases – more than 60% – are the result of transmissions in private settings and are coming from across the state.
Since the outbreak began in March, 45,454,08 cases have been reported in New Jersey out of more than .46 million tests. It does not include fast tests on average.
In the state of 9 million inhabitants, 18,595 people have died – 16,650 have been confirmed and 1,945 potential deaths from virus-related complications.
School case
The state confirmed 7 new school outbreaks in New Jersey on Wednesday, resulting in 31 new cases reported.
There are now 105 confirmed school outbreaks across the state, resulting in 459 cases involving students and staff members in 98 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 number continues to rise every week, Murphy said school outbreak figures fall below the expectations of state officials when schools are opened for the individual class.
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. The governor said that since the start of the school year, 250,563 cases have been reported across the state, with only 1% of the 2/10 cases being “detected on the activity of our schools.”
Aged down
Broken due to age, those in the age group of 30 to 49, the highest percentage of New Jersey residents who have taken the virus (31.5%), followed by 50-64 (24%), 18-29 (19%), 65-79. (11.2%), 80 and above (5.9%), 5-17 (6.7%), and 0-4 (1.4%).
On average, the virus has become more deadly to older residents, especially those with pre-existing conditions. About half of the state’s COVID-19 deaths occurred in people aged 80 and over (46.9%), followed by 65-79 (32.6%), 50-64 (15.9%), 30-49 (4.1%), 18-29 ( 0.4%), 5-17 (0%) and 0-4 (0.02%).
Global number
As of late Thursday morning, there had been more than 4 million positive COVID-19 tests from op University around the world, according to a tele run by Johns Hopkins University. Coronavirus-related complications have killed 1.74 million people.
The U.S. recorded the most cases, with more than 18.6 million and the highest number of deaths at 329,100.
Count-by-count numbers (sorted by most new)
- Middlesex County: 42,584 positive tests (511 new), 1,415 confirmed deaths (213 probable)
- Bergen County: 45,064 positive tests (448 new), 2016 confirmed deaths (260 possible)
- Essex County: 45,459 positive tests (443 new), 2,121 confirmed deaths (242 probable)
- Monmouth County: 29,887 positive tests (443 new), 905 confirmed deaths (100 probable)
- Hudson County: 41,759 positive tests (442 new), 1,514 confirmed deaths (163 possible)
- Ocean County: 30,455 positive tests (375 new), 1,229 confirmed deaths (75 probable)
- Pasek County: 38,839 positive tests (373 new), 1,277 confirmed deaths (149 possible)
- Camden County: 27,150 positive tests (299 new), 722 confirmed deaths (58 probable)
- Union County: 35,396 positive tests (291 new), 1,353 confirmed deaths (174 probable)
- Burlington County: 19,517 positive tests (245 new), 561 confirmed death (45 probable)
- Morris County: 19,205 positive tests (225 new), 770 confirmed deaths (175 possible)
- Atlantic County: 11,395 positive tests (170 new), 337 confirmed deaths (18 probable)
- Gloucester County: 13,314 positive tests (151 new), 349 confirmed deaths (10 probable)
- Mercer County: 18,030 positive tests (139 new), 671 confirmed deaths (37 probable)
- Cumberland County: 7,353 positive tests (134 new), 203 confirmed deaths (9 probable)
- Somerset County: 12,030 positive tests (132 new), 570 confirmed deaths (87 probable)
- Warren County: 68, 3,999 positive tests (new confirmed new), 188 confirmed deaths (13 probable)
- Sussex County: 4,095 positive tests (55 new), 168 confirmed deaths (43 probable)
- Hunterdon County: 5,53333 positive tests (new 44 new), confirmed૨ confirmed death (prob 54 probable)
- Salem County: 2,557 positive tests (new 37 new), 108 confirmed deaths (probable)
- Cape May County: 2,238 positive tests (16 new), 117 confirmed deaths (15 probable)
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