New Jersey health officials on Sunday reported another 1,269 confirmed COVID-19 cases and no deaths, the lowest daily case count in the last four days.
The state’s rate of transmission on Sunday was 0.92, the same rate it has been since Friday. A transmission rate below 1 is an indication that each new case is leading to less than one additional case. When the transmission rate is 1, that means cases have leveled off at the current numbers. Anything above 1 means the outbreak is expanding.
The seven-day average for confirmed positive tests was 1,470 on Sunday, an 11% decrease from a week ago and a 42% decrease from a month ago.
Only three counties — Atlantic, Cape May and Salem — remain in the “high risk” category for coronavirus transmission, down from 18 counties in early August.
The CDC deems 11 counties to be at “medium” risk: Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Sussex and Warren. The remaining seven counties — Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Passaic, Somerset and Union — are deemed “low” risk, according to the CDC.
There were 930 patients with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases reported at 70 of the state’s 71 hospitals as of Sunday. Of those hospitalized, 97 are in intensive care and 42 are on ventilators.
The statewide positivity rate for tests conducted Tuesday — the most recent day for which data is available — was 8.97%.
The CDC considers positivity rates above 10% to be “high.” The positivity rate is substantially lower than its peak of 40.83% on Jan. 1 during the height of the omicron variant.
TOTAL NUMBERS
New Jersey has reported 2.28 million total confirmed COVID-19 cases since the state reported its first known case March 4, 2020.
The Garden State has also recorded 402,174 positive antigen or rapid tests, which are considered probable cases. And there are numerous cases that likely never have been counted, including at-home positive tests that are not included in the state’s numbers.
The state of 9.2 million residents has reported 34,583 COVID-19 deaths — 31,480 confirmed fatalities and 3,103 probable ones.
New Jersey has the ninth-most coronavirus deaths per capita in the U.S. — behind Mississippi, Arizona, Oklahoma, Alabama, West Virginia, New Mexico, Tennessee and Arkansas — as of last week. Last summer, the state had the most deaths per capita in the nation.
VACCINATION NUMBERS
More than 7.03 million people who work, live or study in the Garden State have reached full vaccinated status. More than 7.9 million have received a first dose since vaccinations began in the state on Dec. 15, 2020.
More than 4.26 million people in the state eligible for boosters have received one.
LONG-TERM CARE NUMBERS
At least 9,551 of the state’s COVID-19 deaths have been among residents and staff members at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, according to the most recent data.
Of the active outbreaks at 391 facilities, there are 6,745 current cases among residents and 6,620 cases among staff, as of the latest data.
GLOBAL NUMBERS
There have been more than 604 million COVID-19 cases reported across the globe as of Sunday, according to Johns Hopkins University’s coronavirus database. More than 6.49 million people have died because of the virus, the data shows.
The U.S. has reported the most cumulative COVID-19 cases (more than 94.7 million) and deaths (at least 1.04 million) of any nation.
There have been more than 12.1 billion COVID vaccine doses administered globally.
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Nicolas Fernandes may be reached at nfernandes@njadvancemedia.com.
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