New Jersey's seven-day average for confirmed cases was 1,749 Saturday, up 2% from a week ago, and up 128% from a month ago
deaths across the state and 2,154 new confirmed positive tests as hospitalization rates continue to increase over the weekend.
There were 461 patients with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases across 70 of the state’s 71 hospitals as of Friday night. One hospital did not report data. Hospitalizations this year hit a peak at 6,089 on Jan. 10 during the omicron wave that spread across the state this winter. The positivity rate for tests conducted on Monday, the most recent day with available data, was 9.82%.Nearly all of New Jersey’s 21 counties were listed as having “low” rates of transmission, according tofrom the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After months of all 21 counties being listed as “low,” Bergen County has been elevated to “medium” transmission. Healthy people in the low and medium areas are no longer recommended to wear masks.
For the week ending March 26, BA.2 accounted for 81.2% of the positive tests sampled , while the omicron variant accounted for 18.8% of positive tests sampled.New Jersey has reported 1,934,179 total confirmed COVID cases out of more than 17.5 million PCR tests conducted in the more than two years since the state reported its first known case March 4, 2020.
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