A second transmission63 coronavirus case and five additional deaths were reported in New Jersey on Thursday, as statewide transmission rates rose again to 1.116 – the highest in nearly two months and above a key benchmark indicating an epidemic. Has been.
For the first time since the beginning of September, more than 500 patients have been admitted to the hospital related to COVID-19.
Transmission rate of Garden State Sept. It is above 4 to 1 and reached the level of 1.15 on Wednesday after returning to the target for three days last week. The rate reported on Thursday is the highest after 6 reported gusts.
Any number above 1 means that each newly infected person is, on average, spreading the virus to at least one other person. Any number below 1 i.e. the virus is declining.
“Covid is still with us,” Governor Phil Murphy said during a virtual townhall on Wednesday. “We are much better than before. But we have some hotspots. … We’re still trying to save every life we can.
In the seven months since the outbreak began in early March, New Jersey has reported a total of 205, 9 CO Covid-1 cases out of more than 6.6 million trials.
The state of 9 million people reported 16,127 virus-related deaths at the time – 14,340 lab-confirmed and 1,787 considered probable. New Jersey has the second highest number of deaths in the U.S. after New York. The state has the highest COVID-19 mortality rate per 100,000 inhabitants in the country.
Ocean County led the state for 15 consecutive days until Wednesday for new cases. But on Thursday, the county has the fourth-highest number of new cases behind Middlesex, Monmouth and Bergen counties.
Statewide Daily Positivity Rate by Sunday – The percentage of tests coming in a single day is positive which was 5.28%. The last time this figure was high was in late May.
Ocean County had a positivity rate of 16.03% on Sunday, and Lakewood had a population of 28.63%, according to the state Department of Health.
Of the 663 additional cases in the state reported Thursday, 26 were from Lakewood, the department said.
Count-by-count case (sorted by new cases)
- Middlesex County: 19,679 positive tests (85 new), 1,227 confirmed deaths (202 probable)
- Monmouth County: 12,025 positive tests (new૨ new), 6,776 confirmed deaths (prob૨ probability)
- Bergen County: 22,579 positive tests (71 new), 1,804 confirmed deaths (241 probable)
- Ocean County: 13,718 positive tests (new 66 new), 5,985 confirmed deaths (prob 65 probable)
- Camden County: 9,996 positive tests (40 new), 558 confirmed deaths (53 probable)
- Essex County: 21,157 positive tests (38 new), 1,899 confirmed deaths (229 probable)
- Union County: 17,761 positive tests (37 new), 1,189 confirmed deaths (167 probable)
- Hudson County: 20,767 positive tests (34 new), 1,358 confirmed deaths (160 probable)
- Burlington County: 7,208 positive tests (26 new), 461 confirmed deaths (41 probable)
- Atlantic County: 4,152 positive tests (25 new), 245 confirmed deaths (11 probable)
- Pasek County: 19,135 positive tests (25 new), 1,113 confirmed deaths (141 probable)
- Somerset County: 5,850 positive tests (24 new), 503 confirmed deaths (74 probable)
- Gloucester County: 4,710 positive tests (22 new), 222 confirmed deaths (7 probable)
- Hunterdon County: 1,349 positive tests (18 new), 71 confirmed deaths (54 probable)
- Morris County: 7,920 positive tests (18 new), 686 confirmed deaths (144 probable)
- Mercer County: 8,675 positive tests (15 new), 601 confirmed deaths (35 probable)
- Cape May County: 1,026 positive tests (6 new), 88 confirmed deaths (9 probable)
- Salem County: 1,076 positive tests (6 new), 83 confirmed deaths (5 probable)
- Sussex County: 1,517 positive tests (6 new), 161 confirmed deaths (36 probable)
- Warren County: 1,449 positive tests (6 new), 158 confirmed deaths (13 probable)
- Cumberland County: 3,802 positive tests (0 new), 152 confirmed deaths (8 probable)
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Murphy has cautiously eased months-long coronavirus bans as the number in New Jersey has improved a lot since hitting peaks in April, when officials regularly announced hundreds of new deaths and thousands of new cases daily.
Despite the recent upheaval in daily cases and the fear of a second wave in autumn and winter, the governor said Wednesday that he did not expect the state to re-close as widely as it did in March.
“I’m sure Hack hopes we don’t and I don’t even anticipate it,” Murphy said during his town hall. “I would be very sad and shocked if we had to close the whole place again. I don’t see it right now. “
Hospitalization
As of Wednesday night, 523 patients at 71 hospitals in New Jersey had confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases. That’s 44 more than the night before.
Patients admitted to the hospital included those in critical or intensive care (less than the previous 12 days), including 39 on the ventilator (number one day earlier).
Cor 35 coronavirus patients were discharged there on Wednesday, according to the state’s coronavirus tracking website.
State Health Commissioner Judith Persicili warned Wednesday that the state has seen a “slight surge” in hospital admissions over the past 14 days, although the number is at a six-month low.
Aged down
Broken due to age, those in the age group of 30 to 49 years, the highest percentage of New Jersey residents who have contracted the virus (31%), followed by 50-64 (26.3%), 18-29 (16.5%), 65-79. (13.1%), 80 and above (9%), 5-17 (3.2%), and 0-4 (0.7%).
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 residents aged 80 and over (47.8%), followed by 65-79 (31.5%), 50-64 (15.8%), 30-49 (4.3%), 18-25 ( 0.4%), 5-17 (0%), and 0-4 (0.02%).
At least 7,160 deaths from COVID-19 in the state have been attributed to residents and staff members in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.
Global number
As of early Thursday morning, there have been more than 34 million positive COVID-19 tests worldwide, according to a telly run by Johns Hopkins University. More than 1.01 million people have died, while 23.6 million have recovered.
The United States has the most positive tests in the world, with more than .2.5 million, and the highest number of deaths, at more than 206,900.
NJ Advance Media Staff Writer Brent Johnson Contributed to this report.
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