New Jersey, a state of 9.2 million residents, has reported 32,999 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic two years ago.
, an order that gives Murphy vast, unilateral power to respond to the pandemic. That is set to expire next week, though the Democratic governor could renew it. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have questioned whether the order is still needed.
At least 9,295 of the state’s COVID-19 deaths have been among residents and staff members at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, according toThere were active outbreaks at 355 facilities, resulting in 9,187 current cases among residents and 10,535 cases among staff as of the latest data.— has started to spread in small numbers in New Jersey. Officials have said it’s too soon to know how the variant will affect both the state and nation.
The state does not issue daily breakdowns of the vaccine status of those who test positive, are hospitalized, or died because of the virus. Instead, officials release figures for periods of time. Among 3.53 million residents having received only an initial vaccine course , there were 31,490 breakthrough cases that led to 879 hospitalizations and 144 deaths.
But Murphy said the state is seeing “the rates of in-school transmission now down to where they were pre-Omicron.”
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