Hudson County's COVID Cases: This Week's Trends

Hoboken NJ

05 March, 2021

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HUDSON COUNTY, NJ — As the state continues to roll out coronavirus vaccinations, new cases of the virus are slowing, but the daily fatality rate still has not dropped to the level of Sept. 7, when there were a total of only two coronavirus fatalities reported statewide. For the third week, all of the state except Atlantic County is out of the "red zone," the highest risk category, according to federal officials. Densely populated Hudson County is among five counties that are in the next highest zone, the "orange zone." See Patch's weekly update on where to get a vaccine in Hudson County here, with several sites added this week. Here are recent statewide numbers amid the second wave of the virus: The state of New Jersey said Wednesday that it had confirmed 63 new deaths since the day before, bringing the total death toll from the virus statewide to 21,052. On Monday, the state said 1,865 patients statewide were hospitalized with the virus, 387 of those in ICU and 226 of those on ventilators.New Jersey's peak daily death toll on April 30, 2020 was 460 fatalities reported in one day. The number then steadily dropped until late summer, when cases began rising again. Hudson County numbers In Hudson County, there were 18 new confirmed fatalities since last Friday, countywide. Also in the county, the rate of new cases remained about the same from the week before, but still lower than the spike following the winter holidays. On Friday, March 5, Hudson County reported 64,908 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic, and a total of 1,838 confirmed deaths. That's an increase in cases from the week before of 2.9 percent, and an increase in deaths of 1 percent. A week ago, the county 63,044 confirmed cases and 1,820 confirmed deaths. That was a 2.7 percent increase in cases since the week before, and an 1.8 percent increase in deaths. The week before that, the county reported 61,386 cases and a death toll of 1,788. The disease's impact is reflected in the state Department of Health's most recent "COVID-19 Activity Level Report," issued weekly. As of this week, more than 520,000 Americans had died of the virus. (You can see which states had the highest death toll in the past week on this CDC map.) Here are statewide coronavirus resources: NJ COVID-19 Information Hub: https://covid19.nj.gov/General COVID-19 questions: 2-1-1NJ COVID-19 hotline: (800) 222-1222 Got news? Email [email protected]. Got photos? Please include express written permission from the photographer for us to use them. To be the first to get free news alerts with breaking stories in your town, or to get a free local newsletter each morning, sign up for Patch breaking news alerts or daily newsletters.