The state’s seven-day average for confirmed positive tests is 2,458, a 12% decrease in the past week but a 9% increase from a month ago.
There were 1,077 patients with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases reported across 70 of the state’s 71 hospitals Saturday. Of those hospitalized, 137 are in intensive care and 34 are on ventilators.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers positivity rates above 10% to be “high.” However, the positivity rate is substantially lower than its peak of 40.83% on Jan. 1 during the height of the omicron variant.New Jersey has reported 2.2 million total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the more than two years since the state reported its first known case March 4, 2020.
The state of 9.2 million residents has reported 34,337 COVID-19 deaths — 31,241 confirmed fatalities and 3,096 probable ones.as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of Thursday
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