136 Parsippany Cases In 8 Days As COVID Surges In New Jersey

PARSIPPANY, NJ — With New Jersey cases and omicron concerns rising, see the recent rate of infections, hospital capacities and other important local coronavirus news.

Morris County averaged 254.9 infections per day this past week, according to the New Jersey Department of Health. That's more than triple the amount of daily new cases this week a month ago, when the county averaged 73.7.

Parsippany had 136 new cases since Dec. 7, bringing the township to 5,279 cases since the pandemic began, according to Morris County data. That's a 2.64 percent increase to the total number of cases in eight days.

Here are the local hospital ICU statistics as of the week of Dec. 2 — the most recently available data — according to the Department of Health and Human Services:

• Morristown Medical Center: 28.89 percent of ICU beds available
• Saint Clare's Denville Hospital: 69.23 percent of ICU beds available
• Kindred Hospital New Jersey - Morris County (Dover): ICU bed data unavailable
• Overlook Medical Center (Summit): 24.07 percent of ICU beds available
• Saint Barnabas Medical Center (Livingston): 50 percent of ICU beds available

Here's more coronavirus news:

• The Garden State is one of two states in the nation with the highest spread of the omicron coronavirus variant in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as officials now estimate the highly contagious variant represents 13 percent of COVID-19 cases in New York and New Jersey. Read more.
• Princeton University has moved all final exams to remote format and asked the University community to cancel or postpone all indoor gatherings, after an uptick in cases among undergraduates during the last 24 hours — including "suspected cases of the highly contagious Omicron variant." Read more.

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