How Much Is COVID Spreading In Ocean County With Delta Variant

OCEAN COUNTY, NJ — Ocean County and New Jersey have seen an uptick in coronavirus cases. But what does that mean for each town? (See town-by-town totals below.)

The county averaged 196 new cases per day in the past week, while averaging 186 new daily cases the prior week, according to the Ocean County Health Department.

The seven-day change is only a slight uptick from the week ending Sept. 17, and means many smaller municipalities may have only a few new infections in the last week, or even none.

The county health department 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 97.69 percent of coronavirus cases in New Jersey over a four-week period ending on Aug. 28, CDC numbers show. The CDC variant proportions are based on representative CDC sequencing data gathered during that four-week period. There were 3,199 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 21.61 cases per 100,000 and a 6.19 percent positivity rate.

There were 64 new hospitalizations in Ocean County from Aug. 26 through Sept. 14, according to the Ocean County Health Department. The data on Ocean County hospitalizations had not been updated beyond Sept. 14, but the numbers had fallen since the last five days of August. 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.

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 cases reported as of Sept. 9: 0-18, 414; 19-44, 482; 45-64, 273; 65-74, 122; 75-84, 55; 85+, 24; total 1,298

The seven-day totals for Ocean County as of Sept. 24, are as follows:

• Barnegat Light: 0 new cases, 40 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Barnegat Township: 67, 2,458 total cases, 2.80 percent increase
• Bay Head: 0 new cases, 93 total cases, 4.49 percent increase
• Beach Haven: 4 new cases, 93 total cases, 4.49 percent increase
• Beachwood: 47 new cases, 1,353 total cases, 3.40 percent increase
• Berkeley Township: 97 new cases, 4,991 total cases, 1.98 percent increase
• Brick Township: 210 new cases, 10,415 total cases, 2.06 percent increase
• Eagleswood Township: 7 new cases, 185 total cases, 3.93 percent increase
• Harvey Cedars: 2 new cases, 22 total cases, 10.00 percent increase
• Island Heights: 0 new cases, 156 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Jackson Township: 135 new cases, 7,469 total cases, 1.80 percent increase
• Lacey Township: 70 new cases, 3,216 total cases, 2.23 percent increase
• Lakehurst: 6 new cases, 352 total cases, 1.73 percent increase
• Lakewood: 209 new cases, 15,050 total cases, 1.41 percent increase
• Lavallette: 5 new cases, 199 total cases, 2.58 percent increase
• Little Egg Harbor Township: 43 new cases, 2,078 total cases, 2.11 percent increase
• Long Beach Township: 5 new cases, 237 total cases, 2.16 percent increase
• Manchester: 55 new cases, 4,887 total cases, 1.14 percent increase
• Mantoloking: 0 new cases, 30 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Ocean Gate: 1 new case, 210 total cases, 0.48 percent increase
• Ocean Twp. (Waretown): 13 new cases, 773 total cases, 1.71 percent increase
• Pine Beach: 4 new cases, 204 total cases, 2.00 percent increase
• Plumsted Township: 14 new cases, 795 total cases, 1.79 percent increase
• Point Pleasant Beach: 0 new cases, 578 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Point Pleasant: 53 new cases, 2,761 total cases, 1.96 percent increase
• Seaside Heights: 12 new cases, 321 total cases, 3.88 percent increase
• Seaside Park: 2 new cases, 127 total cases, 1.60 percent increase
• Ship Bottom: 3 new cases, 121 total cases, 2.54 percent increase
• South Toms River: 11 new cases, 458 total cases, 2.46 percent increase
• Stafford Township: 36 new cases, 2,969 total cases, 1.23 percent increase
• Surf City: 1 new case, 75 total cases, 1.35 percent increase
• Toms River: 254 new cases, 12,557 total cases, 2.06 percent increase
• Tuckerton: 3 new cases, 316 total cases, 0.96 percent increase

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