The state’s seven-day average for confirmed positive tests is 329 — down 12% from a week ago and down 29% from a month ago.
“low” community levels of the coronavirus
There were 309 patients with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases reported across the state’s 70 hospitals Thursday night. Of those hospitalized, 31 are in intensive care and 13 are on ventilators. The state’s health department has stopped reporting the rate of transmission. The required data to calculate the transmission rate is “unavailable at this time,” according to the COVID-19 dashboard. The health department said it is investigating alternative data sources and will update the rate of transmission value when possible.New Jersey has reported more than 2.5 million total confirmed COVID-19 cases since it announced its first known case of the virus on March 4, 2020.
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