In New Jersey, on Thursday, March 7, health care officials have reported more confirmed cases of deaths due to the variant of COVID-19, and there are around 1,710 individuals have been infected by the virus as the stealth omicron variant continues to cause an upsurge in infection cases after the initial omicron variant surge reduced.
In the seven days in the state, the average number of confirmed cases was raised to 1,203 on Thursday, there is 39 percent from a week before, and there is 28 percent from a month earlier.
Moreover, the state (New Jersey) has recorded over test 1,000 confirmed positive tests in seven of the previous nine days. The 1,710 cases were observed on Thursday, and March 7 is the most in one day since February 18.
Along with this, there were 413 patients with the confirmed or has been suspected COVID-19 cases in the entire state’s 71 hospitals as of Thursday night.
It has been the first time since March 22 that over 400 individuals that have been infected by the COVID-19 virus have been reported.
Meanwhile, there were around 52 individuals that were discharged in that same 24-hour period at the end of Wednesday night, as per the data shared by the state and were admitted into the intensive care, and 24 of the individual were admitted in ventilators.
Furthermore, the transmission rate in New Jersey was 1.13 on Thursday, March 7. When the transmission rate is more than 1, this depicts the information that each new case is leading to around one other new case, as well as the cases of the COVID spreading continuously.
