Health officials in New Jersey reported 1,014 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and two deaths on Monday as the decline in positive test results began to level off.
The seven-day average of confirmed positive tests was 1,705 on Monday, down 4% from a week ago and down 40% from a month ago. The average rose from 1,647 on Sunday. It’s the first time since late July that the seven-day average has risen by more than his one day.
New Jersey’s infection rate was 0.87 on Monday, down from 1.01 at the start of the month.
A transmission rate less than 1 indicates that each new case leads to less than one additional case. An infection rate of 1 means that the number of infected people has plateaued at the current number. A value above 1 means the outbreak is expanding.
Only Cape May, Atlantic and Mercer counties remain in the “high risk” category for infections, down from 7 counties on Thursday and 18 counties earlier in the month.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considered nine counties at “medium” risk: Cumberland, Salem, Gloucester, Camden, Burlington, Ocean, Monmouth, Morris, and Sussex.
The remaining nine counties — Middlesex, Somerset, Hunterdon, Warren, Union, Essex, Hudson, Bergen and Passaic — are considered “low risk,” according to the CDC on Monday.
As of Monday, 70 of the state’s 71 hospitals had reported 974 confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases. Of the hospitalized patients, 108 are in intensive care units and 37 are on ventilators.
The statewide positive rate for tests conducted on Tuesday (the most recent day for which data is available) was 11.06%.
The CDC considers a positivity rate of over 10% to be “high.” However, the positive rate is significantly lower than the peak of 40.83% he on January 1, which is the peak of the Omicron variety.
total number
New Jersey has reported a total of 2.27 million COVID-19 cases since the first known case was reported on March 4, 2020.
Garden State also recorded 399,271 positive antigen or rapid tests, which are considered probable. And there are numerous cases that likely went uncounted, including positive tests at home that weren’t included in the state’s count.
The state of 9.2 million residents has reported 34,532 COVID-19 deaths, including 31,429 confirmed deaths and 3,103 probable deaths.
New Jersey had the highest number of coronavirus deaths per capita in the U.S. as of Aug. 29, after Mississippi, Arizona, Oklahoma, Alabama, West Virginia, New Mexico, Tennessee and Arkansas. It is the ninth-highest state in terms of population. country population.
vaccination number
More than 7.02 million people who work, live or study in the Garden State are fully immunized. More than 7.9 million people have been vaccinated for the first time since vaccination began in the state on December 15, 2020.
More than 4.25 million people in eligible states received boosters. Regulators have suspended plans to allow adults under the age of 50 to get her second booster this summer. Instead, they hope to refine the vaccine to target emerging subspecies by the fall.
long-term care number
At least 9,539 of the state’s COVID-19 deaths were among residents and staff of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, according to state data Monday.
Of the 393 facilities with ongoing outbreaks, current cases are 6,682 residents and 6,556 staff as of the latest data.
global number
As of Monday, more than 601 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported worldwide, according to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus database.
More than 6.48 million people have died from the virus, according to data.
The United States has reported the most cumulative COVID-19 cases (over 94 million) and deaths (at least 1.04 million) of any country.
More than 12.1 billion doses of vaccine have been administered worldwide.
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