While the state hits a dark milestone, cases continue to fall from the peak of the omicron-fueled surge.
The agency is recommending that all people in high transmission counties wear masks for indoor public settings regardless of vaccination status.There were 5,671 coronavirus patients hospitalized throughout the state’s 71 hospitals as of Friday night, down by 164 patients from the night before. There were 850 people discharged over that same 24-hour period.
More than 2.5 million of the 4.95 million people in New Jersey eligible for boosters have received one. For the week ending Dec. 26, there were 31,334 breakthrough cases out of 101,000 total positive tests. Those cases led to four hospitalizations out of 2,640 total and five deaths out of 146 total fatalities that week.
, according to Department of Health numbers that track infections regardless of where the transmission occurred. The state provides total student and staff cases separately from those deemed to be in-school transmission, which is narrowly defined as three or more cases linked through contact tracing. New Jersey has reported 388 total in-school outbreaks including 2,255 students and staff.
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