Middlesex Co. Remains One Of NJ's COVID Hotspots: See Town Totals

Woodbridge NJ

20 March, 2021

8:25 PM

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MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — Middlesex County remains a COVID hotspot in the state, along with Essex and Passaic counties, for high levels of COVID cases and transmission. All three of those counties are recording between 318 – 442 new PCR-positive COVID tests a day, according to the state Dept. of Health's COVID dashboard. Middlesex County reported 395 new cases on Friday, March 19, about the same number of new cases as recorded the Friday before, on March 12. For comparison, some counties, such as Hunterdon, Sussex and even Mercer, are reporting just 20-40 new cases a day in March. Bergen County has confirmed the most COVID cases so far (about 75,000), follow by Middlesex County (about 73,000 cases) to date. Since the pandemic began, there have been 75,228 total cases in Middlesex County and 1,886 total deaths. The disease's impact is reflected in the state Department of Health's most recent "COVID-19 Activity Level Report," which is issued weekly. The most recent report, released March 13 says Middlesex County is in the orange zone, for moderate spread. If the county is in the "orange" zone, it means it has a rate of 10 to 25 cases per 100,000 people. "Yellow" means the county has a rate 1 to 10 cases per 100,000 people. As of Friday, March 19, here are the case numbers for every town in Middlesex County: Carteret 2,996 Reported Total CasesCranbury 230 Reported Total CasesDunellen 715 Reported Total CasesEast Brunswick 3,133 Reported Total CasesEdison 7,850 Reported Total CasesHelmetta 176 Reported Total CasesHighland Park 903 Reported Total CasesJamesburg 504 Reported Total CasesMetuchen 932 Reported Total Cases Middlesex 1,375 Reported Total CasesMilltown 514 Reported Total CasesMonroe 3,600 Reported Total CasesNew Brunswick 5,453 Reported Total CasesNorth Brunswick 3,898 Reported Total CasesOld Bridge 6,393 Reported Total CasesPerth Amboy 8,052 Reported Total CasesPiscataway 4,692 Reported Total CasesPlainsboro 1,077 Reported Total CasesSayreville 4,153 Reported Total CasesSouth Amboy 958 Reported Total CasesSouth Brunswick 2,388 Reported Total CasesSouth Plainfield 2,481 Reported Total CasesSouth River 1,634 Reported Total Cases Spotswood 668 Reported Total CasesWoodbridge 10,819 Reported Total Cases