By NJ Spotlight

• New Jersey officials today reported an additional 388 confirmed cases of COVID-19, a slight increase from yesterday and bringing the statewide cumulative total to 191,320.
  • State health officials have said they were keeping tabs on trends in counties with 25 or more new cases and today there were again five: Bergen (49), Middlesex (42), Monmouth (32), Ocean (37), and Passaic (34).
  • Eight counties saw single-digit increases or no new cases at all.
  • Roughly 45,000 new cases were reported today in the United States, with the country’s total nearing 6 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.
     
• Another four lab-confirmed COVID-19 deaths were reported, bringing that total to 15,933 deaths among New Jersey residents. 
  • Deaths stemming from a confirmed COVID-19 infection have reached 14,153. Another 1,780 are listed as probable COVID-19 fatalities, as determined in an ongoing review of death certificates and other data by state epidemiologists.
  • Two deaths were reported by state hospitals as occurring yesterday; lab tests will determine whether they are COVID-19 related.
  • The United States’ death toll from the coronavirus is now 182,175, up more than 700 overnight, according to Johns Hopkins.
     
• The number of patients being treated for COVID-19 in New Jersey hospitals was unchanged yesterday.
  • With all 71 hospitals in the state reporting, 437 patients were being treated for confirmed or possible cases of COVID-19. 
  • 88 were in critical/intensive care and 26 of those were on ventilators, up slightly in both cases.
  • 49 COVID-19 patients were discharged, either to their homes or other care facilities.

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