By Matt Arco | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
New Jersey has now lost 9,310 lives to the coronavirus outbreak as the total number of cases continued to climb to 139,945, according to the latest update from state health officials on Monday.
The totals include more than 50 new deaths and more than 1,400 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, though officials have cautioned about lags in reporting particularly over the weekend.
Gov. Phil Murphy has continued to say that the near-lockdown orders in place for several weeks have slowed the outbreak with the number of new daily cases trending downward.
In addition, New Jersey’s have reported decreasing number of patients with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases since a peak around mid-April. The state was missing data for two of 71 hospitals as of Sunday night, making comparisons to previous days incomplete. At least 4,100 patients remain hospitalized with around 1,000 on ventilators.
The county-by-county breakdown of cases includes:
- Bergen County: 17,028 with 1,358 deaths
- Hudson County: 16,936 with 971 deaths
- Essex County: 15,602 with 1,426 deaths
- Passaic County: 14,645 with 747 deaths
- Union County: 14,164 with 875 deaths
- Middlesex County: 14,036 with 794 deaths
- Ocean County: 7,569 with 547 deaths
- Monmouth County: 6,988 with 445 deaths
- Morris County: 5,876 with 518 deaths
- Mercer County: 5,393 with 340 deaths
- Camden County: 4,959 with 227 deaths
- Somerset County: 4,093 with 335 deaths
- Burlington County: 3,665 with 200 deaths
- Gloucester County: 1,690 with 83 deaths
- Atlantic County: 1,533 with 77 deaths
- Cumberland County: 1,363 with 40 deaths
- Warren County: 1,047 with 104 deaths
- Sussex County: 1,033 with 128 deaths
- Hunterdon County: 723 with 45 deaths
- Cape May County: 462 with 32 deaths
- Salem County: 411 with 18 deaths
Another 729 cases are being investigated to determine where the person resides.
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