How Much Is COVID Spreading In Ocean County With Delta Variant?

OCEAN COUNTY, NJ — Here's the weekly look at coronavirus cases in Ocean County, including town-by-town totals and a look at related data since the emergence of the delta variant earlier this year.

The county averaged 177 new cases per day in the past week, while averaging 184 new daily cases the prior week, according to the Ocean County Health Department.

The seven-day change is a decrease from last week and lower than average for the week ending Sept. 17, and means smaller municipalities may have only a few new infections in the last week, or even none.

The county health department has said about 80 percent of the new positive coronavirus cases are in people who have not been vaccinated against the virus. Among the 20 percent of people who are vaccinated and have breakthrough infections, the symptoms have been mild. There have been no deaths in Ocean County from the virus among breakthrough cases.

Officials continue to monitor the delta variant, which accounted for 99.4 percent of coronavirus cases in New Jersey over a four-week period ending on Sept. 11, CDC numbers show. The CDC variant proportions are based on representative CDC sequencing data gathered during that four-week period. There were 3,057 New Jersey samples that underwent sequencing during that time.

Ocean County and all of the Central Jersey East region has "high" COVID-19 activity, according to New Jersey's latest weekly report. The determination is based on metrics such as case rate, positivity rate and prevalence of COVID-like illnesses. The region has the third-highest case rate in the state at 17.20 cases per 100,000, and a 4.92 percent positivity rate.

Hospitalizations in Ocean County have decreased over the last month, with 58 new hospitalizations from Sept. 1 through Oct. 4; 24 of those were from Sept. 20 to Oct. 4.

The county does not provide a breakdown by age for the recent hospitalizations, nor does the county have a breakdown by day of how many COVID patients have been released from hospitals.

There have been 72 deaths from Sept. 3 through Oct. 8, according to Ocean County Health Department statistics.

The Ocean County Health Department data includes the seven-day town-by-town case totals. It also includes a breakdown by age of how many cases have been diagnosed in each age group.

The age breakdown is as follows for new cases reported as of Oct. 7: 0-18, 325; 19-44, 544; 45-64, 212; 65-74, 94; 75-84, 43; 85+, 16; total 1,234

The seven-day totals for Ocean County as of Oct. 8 are as follows:

• Barnegat Light: 0 new cases, 40 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Barnegat Township: 97, 2,555 total cases, 3.94 percent increase
• Bay Head: 0 new cases, 94 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Beach Haven: 0 new cases, 93 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Beachwood: 29 new cases, 1,416 total cases, 2.09 percent increase
• Berkeley Township: 65 new cases, 5,153 total cases, 1.28 percent increase
• Brick Township: 164 new cases, 10,799 total cases, 1.54 percent increase
• Eagleswood Township: 1 new case, 187 total cases, 0.54 percent increase
• Harvey Cedars: 1 new case, 22 total cases, 4.55 percent increase
• Island Heights: 4 new cases, 166 total cases, 2.47 percent increase
• Jackson Township: 104 new cases, 7,696 total cases, 1.37 percent increase
• Lacey Township: 105 new cases, 3,321 total cases, 3.26 percent increase
• Lakehurst: 13 new cases, 370 total cases, 3.64 percent increase
• Lakewood: 397 new cases, 15,734 total cases, 2.59 percent increase
• Lavallette: 2 new cases, 203 total cases, 0.99 percent increase
• Little Egg Harbor Township: 37 new cases, 2,160 total cases, 1.74 percent increase
• Long Beach Township: 5 new cases, 242 total cases, 2.07 percent increase
• Manchester: 47 new cases, 4,980 total cases, 0.95 percent increase
• Mantoloking: 2 new cases, 32 total cases, 6.67 percent increase
• Ocean Gate: 3 new cases, 215 total cases, 1.42 percent increase
• Ocean Twp. (Waretown): 13 new cases, 800 total cases, 1.65 percent increase
• Pine Beach: 5 new cases, 221 total cases, 2.31 percent increase
• Plumsted Township: 11 new cases, 816 total cases, 1.37 percent increase
• Point Pleasant Beach: 4 new cases, 583 total cases, 0.69 percent increase
• Point Pleasant: 27 new cases, 2,820 total cases, 0.97 percent increase
• Seaside Heights: 4 new cases, 328 total cases, 1.23 percent increase
• Seaside Park: 2 new cases, 129 total cases, 1.57 percent increase
• Ship Bottom: 0 new cases, 122 total cases, 0 percent increase
• South Toms River: 14 new cases, 484 total cases, 2.98 percent increase
• Stafford Township: 25 new cases, 3,030 total cases, 0.87 percent increase
• Surf City: 2 new cases, 80 total cases, 2.56 percent increase
• Toms River: 159 new cases, 12,889 total cases, 1.25 percent increase
• Tuckerton: 4 new cases, 327 total cases, 1.24 percent increase

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