NJ Spotlight reports
- New Jersey reported 3,551 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 95,856.
- Statewide, 147,850 tests have now been performed and 66,734 have returned positive, for an overall positivity rate of 45.14%.
- Statewide, 147,850 tests have now been performed and 66,734 have returned positive, for an overall positivity rate of 45.14%.
- Hospitalization numbers have remained stable for the last several days, including in intensive care and use of ventilators (above chart):
- 7,210 people are hospitalized due to COVID-19, a 3% decrease in the growth rate in the past two days,
- 361 new hospitalizations,
- 1,983 in critical or intensive care,
- 1,570 requiring ventilators,
- 745 COVID patients have been discharged, bringing the total number of patients discharged to 9,692.
- 84 patients are in the state’s field medical stations.
- The last 24 hours saw 314 more deaths, bringing the total of COVID-related fatalities to 5,063. That is second to New York, with more than 19,000 deaths. Nationwide, there have been more than 46,000 deaths.
- Racial breakdown of NJ fatalities:
- 49.3% White
- 22% African American/Black
- 17.2% Hispanic/LatinX
- 5.4% Asian
- 6.1% other
- Racial breakdown of NJ fatalities:
- More than 430 long-term care or assisted living facilities have now reported at least one COVID-19 case.
- 11,608 residents tested positive.
- 2,050 deaths related to COVID-19.
- At the state’s veterans homes, 183 of 741 residents have tested positive.
- 80 residents have died.
- 183 veterans have tested positive for COVID-19.
- 98 staff have tested positive for COVID-19, no deaths.
- Six hospitals required to divert admissions overnight due to capacity, four of them in central New Jersey.
Read the full NJ Spotlight report here
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