The state’s seven-day case average, at 12,237, is the highest ever recorded. Hospitalizations also increased Monday to the highest level since Feb. 10.
deaths and 8,831 confirmed positive cases, which despite breaking a streak of five-digit tallies, coincided with the highest seven-day case average ever recorded and a surge in hospitalizations.
Numbers in the Garden State have been on a record-breaking tear as the omicron variant has surged, cold weather has driven people indoors, and demand for testing has spiked ahead of holiday gatherings. Monday marks the twelfth straight day in which the state has reported more than 6,000 new positive tests a day.
New Jersey’s statewide transmission rate, which indicates whether the pandemic is growing or shrinking, was not available Monday morning. It was 1.56 on Sunday and 1.46 on Saturday. Any transmission rate above 1 indicates each infected person is passing the virus to at least one other person and the outbreak is expanding.There are caveats to the case records. The spike comes as significantly more people are being tested, safeguarding planned holiday gatherings amid fears over omicron.
It’s also not known if all the cases announced Sunday were over a 24-hour period. Some may have been from prior tests just now reported by the state.
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