New Jersey reported five more coronavirus deaths and 378 more positive tests on Sunday as the state’s transmission dropped for the seventh straight day – although it remained just above the key benchmark indicating the outbreak was spreading.
Garden State’s death toll now stands at 15,874, with 14,021 confirmed and 1,853 likely deaths from COVID-19, according to the latest numbers reported by Goddess Phil Murphy.
The state has reported 184,773 known coronavirus cases in the little more than five months since its first positive test was announced March 4.
Murphy announced the new songs on Twitter. He did not hold a live press release on Sunday.
The state did not say when the newly reported deaths occurred Sunday.
The figures come the same day the same day that the US transcends 5 million COVID-19 cases – about a quarter of all infections worldwide since the virus originated in China a little over seven months ago.
Still, Sunday marks the 31st straight day that New Jersey has reported less than 50 new deaths in one day and the ninth straight day it has less than 15. Reported. It also marks the ninth straight day that the state has announced fewer than 500 new cases after seeing sudden upticks late last month.
The number of daily deaths and cases in New Jersey – an early hotspot for coronavirus – remains well below its peaks in April, when it was routine for the state to announce hundreds of new deaths and thousands of new positive tests a day.
On Friday, Murphy said “most numbers this week have started going in a direction we need them to go” after saying a week earlier that “alarms” were ringing due to growing business numbers and an increasing transmission frequency.
Transfer rate
The state’s most recent rate – a critical metric used by the state to determine how to lift further restrictions on coronavirus – is 1.03, down from 1.15 reported on Friday and from a four-month high of 1.49 reported a week ago. lyn.
The goal is to keep the rate below 1. Anything above that marks means that each new case leads to more than one additional infection and the virus spreads.
The rate was below 1 for weeks during the most severe parts of New Jersey’s coronavirus lockdowns, but fluctuated above and below 1 in July, when the state took more reopening steps. The rate has dropped incrementally every day this week.
The most recent spike on Monday led Murphy to lower limits on indoor meetings in New Jersey to 25% with a maximum of 25 people, with exceptions for weddings, funerals, and religious and political events. Up to this point, there could be indoor meetings of up to 25% of the capacity of a building or up to 100 people.
HOSPITALIZATIONS
There were 483 patients treated for COVID-19 as under investigation for it in 71 New Jersey hospitals Saturday night. This is the second time since the state began publicly following hospitalizations that the patient count falls below 500.
Of those patients, 83 were in critical as well as intensive care and 31 were on ventilators.
There were 57 coronavirus patients discharged from state hospitals on Saturday, according to the state’s tracking website.
New Jersey’s hospitalizations have been steadily declining in recent months after peaking at more than 8,000 in mid-April.
COUNTY-BY-COUNTY NUMBERS
- Atlantic County: 3,463 cases (9 new), 237 confirmed deaths (15 likely)
- Bergen County: 20,794 cases (46 new), 1,787 confirmed deaths (251 likely)
- Burlington County: 6,007 cases (30 new), 433 deaths (40 likely)
- Camden County: 8,562 cases (39 new), 524 confirmed deaths (56 likely)
- Cape May County: 832 cases (8 new), 82 confirmed deaths (5 likely)
- Cumberland County: 3,338 cases (6 new), 146 confirmed deaths (12 probable)
- Essex County: 19,728 cases (14 new), 1,872 confirmed deaths (239 likely)
- Gloucester County: 3,248 cases (12 new), 205 confirmed deaths (7 likely)
- Hudson County: 19,671 cases (30 new), 1,337 confirmed deaths (167 likely)
- Hunterdon County: 1,149 cases (2 new), 70 confirmed deaths (56 likely)
- Mercer County: 8,119 cases (6 new), 580 confirmed deaths (39 likely)
- Middlesex County: 17,919 cases (36 new), 1,199 deaths (204 likely)
- Monmouth County: 10,302 cases (20 new), 759 confirmed deaths (97 probable)
- Morris County: 7,248 cases (14 new), 681 confirmed deaths (148 likely)
- Ocean County: 10,596 cases (12 new), 951 confirmed deaths (67 likely)
- Passaic County: 17,642 cases (19 new), 1,092 deaths (148 likely)
- Salem County: 894 cases (2 new), 81 confirmed deaths (6 likely)
- Somerset County: 5,245 cases (15 new), 486 deaths (75 likely)
- Sussex County: 1,330 cases (4 new), 161 confirmed deaths (37 likely)
- Union County: 16,695 cases (33 new), 1,180 confirmed deaths (170 likely)
- Warren County: 1,345 cases (2 new), 158 confirmed deaths (14 likely)
CORONAVIRUS sources: Live map tracker | Newsletter | Website
New Jersey, a densely populated state of 9 million people, ranks second in the U.S. states in total COVID-19 deaths and eighth in total cases.
About half of the state’s deaths – at least 6,956 – have been from residents of staff members at the state’s nursing homes and long-term care centers.
The total number of coronavirus cases in the state is cumulative and does not reflect the thousands of residents who recovered. Nearly 33,000 New Jersey residents have recovered from the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University.
There are now more than 2.3 million COVID-19 tests conducted in the state.
New Jersey remains in Phase 2 of its plan to gradually lift coronavirus restrictions that Murphy ordered in March to combat the spread of COVID-19. Gyms, cinemas and sections of indoor restaurants of bars restaurants remain closed until further notice.
Nearly 1.5 million workers in the state have filed for unemployment benefits since mid-March.
Murphy is urging travelers from Puerto Rico and 34 states who qualify as coronavirus hotspots to be 14 days voluntarily self-quarantine upon arrival in New Jersey.
As of early Sunday afternoon, there have been more than 19.6 million positive tests for COVID-19 worldwide, according to a running count from Johns Hopkins University. Of those, more than 727,000 died, while nearly 12 million were recovered.
There have been more than 162,000 deaths in the United States, by far the most in the world.
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