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 186 new cases per day in the past week, while averaging 292 new daily cases the prior week, according to the Ocean County Health Department.

The seven-day change is a significant drop from Sept. 10, 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 97.7 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 2,728 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 second-highest case rate in the state at 20.92 cases per 100,000 and a 6.40 percent positivity rate.

There have been 98 new hospitalizations in Ocean County from Aug. 16 through Sept. 14, according to the Ocean County Health Department. The first week of September had 18 new hospitalizations and there were 12 from Sept. 8-14, a decrease from the 34 reported from Aug. 26-31. 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, 302; 19-44, 520; 45-64, 275; 65-74, 106; 75-84, 63; 85+, 31; total 1,298

The seven-day totals for Ocean County as of Sept. 17, are as follows:

• Barnegat Light: 0 new cases, 40 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Barnegat Township: 36, 2,391 total cases, 1.53 percent increase
• Bay Head: 4 new cases, 93 total cases, 4.49 percent increase
• Beach Haven: 3 new cases, 89 total cases, 3.49 percent increase
• Beachwood: 29 new cases, 1,306 total cases, 2.27 percent increase
• Berkeley Township: 101 new cases, 4,894 total cases, 2.11 percent increase
• Brick Township: 169 new cases, 10,205 total cases, 1.68 percent increase
• Eagleswood Township: 6 new cases, 178 total cases, 3.49 percent increase
• Harvey Cedars: 0 new cases, 20 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Island Heights: 4 new cases, 156 total cases, 2.63 percent increase
• Jackson Township: 128 new cases, 7,334 total cases, 1.78 percent increase
• Lacey Township: 74 new cases, 3,146 total cases, 2.41 percent increase
• Lakehurst: 7 new cases, 346 total cases, 2.06 percent increase
• Lakewood: 243 new cases, 14,841 total cases, 1.66 percent increase
• Lavallette: 3 new cases, 194 total cases, 1.57 percent increase
• Little Egg Harbor Township: 35 new cases, 2,035 total cases, 1.75 percent increase
• Long Beach Township: 2 new cases, 232 total cases, 0.87 percent increase
• Manchester: 84 new cases, 4,832 total cases, 1.77 percent increase
• Mantoloking: 1 new case, 30 total cases, 3.45 percent increase
• Ocean Gate: 6 new cases, 209 total cases, 2.96 percent increase
• Ocean Twp. (Waretown): 12 new cases, 760 total cases, 1.60 percent increase
• Pine Beach: 3 new cases, 200 total cases, 1.52 percent increase
• Plumsted Township: 12 new cases, 781 total cases, 1.56 percent increase
• Point Pleasant Beach: 5 new cases, 578 total cases, 0.87 percent increase
• Point Pleasant: 48 new cases, 2,708 total cases, 1.80 percent increase
• Seaside Heights: 2 new cases, 309 total cases, 0.65 percent increase
• Seaside Park: 1 new case, 125 total cases, 0.81 percent increase
• Ship Bottom: 1 new case, 118 total cases, 0.85 percent increase
• South Toms River: 3 new cases, 447 total cases, 0.68 percent increase
• Stafford Township: 57 new cases, 2,933 total cases, 1.98 percent increase
• Surf City: 0 new cases, 74 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Toms River: 217 new cases, 12,303 total cases, 1.80 percent increase
• Tuckerton: 3 new cases, 313 total cases, 0.97 percent increase

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