New Jersey reported 4,111 new cases of coronavirus Tuesday and another 97 deaths, the highest in mid-June, as healthcare workers became the first people in the state to be vaccinated against the virus.
The state’s seven-day average for positive cases has recently dropped to 4,741 after more than 5,000 pressures. It’s 7% lower than a week ago, but 33% higher than a month ago.
The statewide broadcast rate fell to 1.10 on Tuesday, indicating a potential plateau in new cases after a surge during the second week after Thanksgiving.
However hospital admissions continued and by Monday night 3,660 patients had arrived, the highest since mid-May.
Earlier in the day, government Phil Murphy was given his first vaccine at University Hospital in Newark.
“Today, as we celebrate our first vaccination, we mourn all those who lost,” Murphy said in a tweet announcing the deaths of 97 people. “It simply came to our notice then. Be aware. ”
Maritza Benicis, a nurse in the emergency room at Hit Hospital, was the first person to receive a dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at 8-10 a.m., after which Benicz was greeted by everyone around her.
“I don’t want to be scared anymore,” Benix said of working in a hospital with Covid-19 positive patients.
A number of other healthcare workers at University H Hospital Spital and five other hospitals in Garden State are also expected to receive the first of two doses on Tuesday.
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The New Jersey death toll from the virus is now 17,872, with 16,004 confirmed deaths and 1,868 listed as probable. There have been 810 seaweed-19 deaths in the state in December.
On Monday, Murphy closed the door on lifting a New Jersey curfew on indoor bars and restaurants, which meant trying and slowing down the spread of the virus in a timely manner for New Year’s Eve.
The state bans the sale of food and alcohol indoors after 10 p.m., and counties and municipalities have the option of closing down compulsory businesses at 8 p.m. every night. The rules, which Murphy enacted last month, mean that this New Year’s celebration will not be held in a neighborhood bar or restaurant.
State contact tracers, meanwhile, tend to hit the wall when it comes to trying to erupt.
Seventy percent of those contacted by more than 3,300 tracers in the state last week will not work with them, Murphy said Monday. That’s up from 74% of people who refused the previous week.
Murphy called the process of finding “extremely crucial” to slow the growth of the virus.
Count-by-count numbers (sorted by most new)
- Middlesex County: 37,721 positive tests (415 new), 1,350 confirmed deaths (207 probable)
- Bergen County: 41,216 positive tests (391 new), 1,961 confirmed deaths (254 possible)
- Hudson County: 37,925 positive tests (373 new), 1,483 confirmed deaths (159 probable)
- Pasek County: 35,996 positive tests (319 new), 1,234 confirmed deaths (144 probable)
- Essex County: 41,767 positive tests (309 new), 2,068 confirmed deaths (234 probable)
- Monmouth County: 25,981 positive tests (277 new), 853 confirmed deaths (94 probable)
- Union County: 32,935 positive tests (274 new), 1,314 confirmed deaths (171 probable)
- Camden County: 24,248 positive tests (254 new), 685 confirmed deaths (58 probable)
- Ocean County: 26,733 positive tests (223 new), 1,153 confirmed deaths (70 probable)
- Burlington County: 17,392 positive tests (215 new), 527 confirmed death (45 probable)
- Mercer County: 16,515 positive tests (193 new), 651 confirmed deaths (37 probable)
- Morris County: 17,092 positive tests (160 new), 750 confirmed deaths (157 probable)
- Gloucester County: 11,756 positive tests (147 new), 320 confirmed deaths (8 probable)
- Atlantic County: 9,880 positive tests (125 new), 305 confirmed deaths (16 probable)
- Somerset County: 10,923 positive tests (118 new), 551 confirmed deaths (82 probable)
- Cumberland County: 6,368 positive tests (89 new), 186 confirmed deaths (8 probable)
- Sussex County: 3,455 positive tests (51 new), 164 confirmed deaths (39 probable)
- Salem County: 2,232 positive tests (47 new), 97 confirmed deaths (5 probable)
- Warren County: 3,181 positive tests (33 new), 163 confirmed deaths (13 probable)
- Hunterdon County: 3,108 positive tests (31 new), 79 confirmed deaths (54 probable)
- Cape May County: 2015 positive tests (21 new), 110 confirmed deaths (13 probable)
Hospitals
As of Monday night, 3,660 patients had confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases in New Jersey’s hospitals1 hospitals. That’s 25 more than last night.
This includes 727 (23 more than the previous night) in severe or intensive care, with 456 (35 less) on the ventilator.
According to the state’s coronavirus dashboard, 291 patients were discharged from hospitals on Monday.
NJ DOH 12/14/20
School case
Still, 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.
That number does 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.
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 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 7,402 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 again at an alarming rate in recent weeks.
Global number
As of Tuesday morning, there have been a million positive COVID-19 tests worldwide, according to a tele run by Johns Hopkins University. Coronavirus-related complications have killed 1.62 million people.
U.S. The highest number of cases was reported in India with 16.5 million and the highest number of deaths was over 300,700.
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