N.J. reports 364 new COVID cases, 1 death. All counties have ‘low’ levels of virus, CDC says.

New Jersey health officials Friday reported another 364 COVID-19 cases across the state and one new confirmed death.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now considers all of New Jersey’s 21 counties to have “low” community levels of the coronavirus. Case counts and hospitalization numbers by region determine each county’s community level, according to the CDC.

The statewide rate of transmission is 0.85, health officials reported. A transmission rate of 1 means the number of cases have leveled off, while anything below 1 means the outbreak is declining.

The state’s seven-day average for confirmed positive tests is 376 — down 12% from a week ago and down 47% from a month ago.

There were 434 patients with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases reported across 69 of the state’s 70 hospitals Thursday night. Of those hospitalized, 56 are in intensive care and 20 are on ventilators.

The statewide positivity rate for tests conducted Monday, the most recent day for which data is available, was 2.66%.

TOTAL NUMBERS

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.

The Garden State has also recorded 502,379 positive antigen or rapid tests, which are considered probable cases. There are also numerous cases that were likely never counted, including at-home positive tests that are not included in the state’s numbers.

The state of 9.2 million residents has reported 36,071 COVID-19 deaths — 32,958 confirmed fatalities and 3,116 probable ones.

New Jersey had the 11th-most coronavirus deaths per capita in the U.S. as of March 10.

VACCINATION NUMBERS

More than 7.1 million people who work, live or study in New Jersey have reached fully vaccinated status. More than 8 million people have received a first dose since vaccinations began in the state on Dec. 15, 2020.

More than 4.3 million people in the state eligible for boosters have received one.

LONG-TERM CARE NUMBERS

At least 10,156 of the state’s COVID-19 deaths have been among residents and staff members at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, according to the most recent state data.

Of the active outbreaks at 208 facilities, there are 6,520 current cases among residents and 4,237 cases among staff, according to the latest data.

GLOBAL NUMBERS

Johns Hopkins University of Medicine announced on March 10 that its Coronavirus Resource Center, which reported global COVID-19 data since January 2020, has been discontinued.

As of that date, there were more than 676 million COVID-19 cases reported across the globe, according to the center’s database. More than 6.8 million people have died because of the virus, the data shows.

The U.S. had reported the most cumulative cases (more than 103 million) and deaths (at least 1.1 million) of any nation.

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