Bergen County COVID Cases: See Town-By-Town Updates

Mahwah NJ

17 April, 2021

11:54 PM

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BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — New data has been released that shows the coronavirus continues to have an impact on Bergen County (see town-by-town totals below). Bergen County reported 85,113 cases on Friday, an uptick from 83,146 cases last week. Variants have become an increasing concern in the state, but Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus is now able to better test for them. New Bridge has expanded its variant testing this week to include 22 relevant COVID-19 mutations, hospital officials announced. The hospital's laboratory started using a custom-built analysis panel within the Applied Biosystems TaqMan SARS-CoV-2 test in its in-house lab. This means that the hospital can adapt testing quickly as additional mutations and variants emerge. Read more: Bergen New Bridge Expands COVID Variant Testing New Bridge also received Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for an antibody test that accounts for COVID-19 immunity after a person has been vaccinated. Hospital officials said this test will help physicians recognize vaccine generated immunity versus autoimmunity from a prior COVID-19 infection in their patients. New Bridge is the first hospital in the state to offer the test, officials said. Read more: New COVID Immunity Testing Approved For Use At Bergen New Bridge While there are positives in the world of testing, county trends could prove troublesome. The county's ongoing wastewater testing program indicates that the current concentration levels of COVID-19 are similar to those from the late fall and early winter of 2020, which were followed by a spike in cases. There were 7,210 new positive coronavirus cases in Bergen County in March, county officials said. Read more: Bergen Wastewater Tests Signal Increase In Community COVID Spread "The fact that community spread is trending towards the levels we saw post-Thanksgiving last year is troubling," said Hansel Asmar, Bergen County Department of Health Services director. "We need to double down on our collective efforts to reduce the spread. If the virus continues to mutate at the current pace, new-vaccine resistance variants could very well prolong this fight even further." The disease's impact is also reflected in the state Department of Health's most recent "COVID-19 Activity Level Report," which is issued weekly. The most recent report, for the week ending April 10, says Bergen County is in the "orange" zone. 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. If the overall activity is at an "orange" level, state officials say, school districts in those counties would have to take more serious steps — such as quarantining or even shutting down schools — if a child shows the symptoms of COVID-19. "When it is high risk, there are some recommendations that we make together with local school boards," said Edward Lifshitz, medical director for the state Department of Health. Indeed, a number of school districts still provide remote instruction even as the number of new daily cases has dropped in recent weeks. Bergen County officials provided the following breakdown of cases by town: Allendale: 518Alpine: 117Bergenfield: 3,018 Bogota: 786 Carlstadt: 647 Cliffside Park: 2,437 Closter: 619 Cresskill: 740 Demarest: 335 Dumont: 1,485 East Rutherford: 945 Edgewater: 905 Elmwood Park: 2,681 Emerson: 776 Englewood: 2,438 Englewood Cliffs: 331 Fair Lawn: 2,863 Fairview: 1,841 Fort Lee: 2,446 Franklin Lakes: 948 Garfield: 3,682 Glen Rock: 749 Hackensack: 4,365 Harrington Park: 305 Hasbrouck Heights: 1,062 Haworth: 264 Hillsdale: 746 Ho-Ho-Kus: 275 Leonia: 589 Little Ferry: 1,038 Lodi: 2,909 Lyndhurst: 2,757 Mahwah: 1,393 Maywood: 914 Midland Park: 530 Montvale: 441 Moonachie: 333 New Milford: 1,597 North Arlington: 1,914 Northvale: 400 Norwood: 571 Oakland: 1,040 Old Tappan: 383 Oradell: 658 Palisades Park: 1,356 Paramus: 3,035 Park Ridge: 651 Ramsey: 931 Ridgefield: 1,108 Ridgefield Park: 1,211 Ridgewood: 1,336 River Edge: 755 River Vale: 386 Rochelle Park: 655 Rockleigh: 220 Rutherford: 1,412 Saddle Brook: 1,432 Saddle River: 567 South Hackensack: 305 Teaneck: 3,491 Tenafly: 909 Teterboro: 16 Upper Saddle River: 184 Waldwick: 738 Wallington: 1,090 Washington Township: 652 Westwood: 1,382 Woodcliff Lake: 606 Wood-Ridge: 911 Wyckoff: 1,536 Bergen County - No Town Attribution: 2,270