Updated 3:09 PM; Today 12:03 PM
By Matt Arco | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Murphy said the latest numbers include 2,146 new positive tests and another 106 deaths attributed to COVID-19. He cautioned that there may be a reporting delay with Monday’s numbers from the weekend.
The latest statistics include some continuing signs of hope that the outbreak has leveled off. The state’s 71 hospitals reported the number of patients with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases declined for a sixth consecutive day to 6,407 patients as of Sunday night.
That’s down 23% from the peak on April 14 of 8,293 patients. Murphy has held up the hospitalization number as a key real-time indicator of the outbreak.
“The trend line continues to point in the right direction,” the governor said during his daily coronavirus press briefing in Trenton, calling it the “measuring stick of our progress.”
New Jersey has 204,651 residents who have been tested for the coronavirus, and 43% have tested positive.
The county-by-county coronavirus cases and deaths includes:
- Bergen County: 15,104 with 960 deaths
- Hudson County: 13,925 with 673 deaths
- Essex County: 13,047 with 1,028 deaths
- Union County: 12,011 with 583 deaths
- Passaic County: 11,349 with 438 deaths
- Middlesex County: 10,767 with 455 deaths
- Ocean County: 6,024 with 330 deaths
- Monmouth County: 5,759 with 302 deaths
- Morris County: 5,030 with 355 deaths
- Mercer County: 3,433 with 194 deaths
- Somerset County: 3,204 with 227 deaths
- Camden County: 3,124 with 122 deaths
- Burlington County: 2,407 with 98 deaths
- Gloucester County: 1,111 with 33 deaths
- Sussex County: 864 with 93 deaths
- Warren County: 810 with 67 deaths
- Atlantic County: 749 with 30 deaths
- Cumberland County: 595 with 8 deaths
- Hunterdon County: 564 with 23 deaths
- Cape May County: 281 with 18 deaths
- Salem County: 212 with 7 deaths
There’s another 818 cases still under investigation to determine where the person resides.
CORONAVIRUS RESOURCES: Live map tracker | Newsletter | Homepage
It’s difficult to get a complete picture of exactly how many people in New Jersey currently have COVID-19 because officials say testing has been backlogged up to seven days. The state also is not reporting significant increases in daily testing, so it is unclear exactly how quickly the virus continues to spread.
As of Monday morning, nearly 3 million people across the globe tested positive for the virus, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University. Of those, more than 207,000 have died and more than 875,000 have recovered.
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