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

The seven-day change is an increase from last week, but roughly equal to the week before that.

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 99.5 percent of coronavirus cases in New Jersey over a four-week period ending on Sept. 18, CDC numbers show. The CDC variant proportions are based on representative CDC sequencing data gathered during that four-week period. There were 3,155 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 including fever and cough and shortness of breath. The region has the third-highest case rate in the state at 16.63 cases per 100,000, a rate of 6.43 percent for COVID-like illnesses and a 4.77 percent positivity rate.

Hospitalizations in Ocean County had decreased but the most recent data remains through Oct. 4 and has not been updated in the last week on the county health department's website.

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 19 deaths from Oct. 8 to Oct. 15, bringing the county's cumulative total to 2,151, 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. 14: 0-18, 406; 19-44, 491; 45-64, 237; 65-74, 93; 75-84, 42; 85+, 14; total 1,241

The seven-day totals for Ocean County as of Oct. 15 are as follows:

• Barnegat Light: 0 new cases, 40 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Barnegat Township: 52, 2,607 total cases, 2.04 percent increase
• Bay Head: 0 new cases, 94 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Beach Haven: 1 new case, 94 total cases, 1.08 percent increase
• Beachwood: 35 new cases, 1,451 total cases, 2.47 percent increase
• Berkeley Township: 61 new cases, 5,214 total cases, 1.18 percent increase
• Brick Township: 196 new cases, 10,995 total cases, 1.81 percent increase
• Eagleswood Township: 3 new cases, 190 total cases, 1.60 percent increase
• Harvey Cedars: 1 new case, 23 total cases, 4.55 percent increase
• Island Heights: 5 new cases, 171 total cases, 3.01 percent increase
• Jackson Township: 93 new cases, 7,789 total cases, 1.21 percent increase
• Lacey Township: 37 new cases, 3,358 total cases, 1.11 percent increase
• Lakehurst: 10 new cases, 380 total cases, 2.70 percent increase
• Lakewood: 435 new cases, 16,169 total cases, 2.76 percent increase
• Lavallette: 0 new cases, 202 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Little Egg Harbor Township: 33 new cases, 2,193 total cases, 1.53 percent increase
• Long Beach Township: 0 new cases, 241 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Manchester: 67 new cases, 5,047 total cases, 1.35 percent increase
• Mantoloking: 0 new cases, 32 total cases, 0 percent increase
• Ocean Gate: 1 new case, 216 total cases, 0.47 percent increase
• Ocean Twp. (Waretown): 10 new cases, 810 total cases, 1.25 percent increase
• Pine Beach: 6 new cases, 227 total cases, 2.71 percent increase
• Plumsted Township: 23 new cases, 839 total cases, 2.81 percent increase
• Point Pleasant Beach: 2 new cases, 585 total cases, 0.34 percent increase
• Point Pleasant: 41 new cases, 2,861 total cases, 1.45 percent increase
• Seaside Heights: 5 new cases, 333 total cases, 1.52 percent increase
• Seaside Park: 2 new cases, 131 total cases, 1.55 percent increase
• Ship Bottom: 0 new cases, 122 total cases, 0 percent increase
• South Toms River: 5 new cases, 489 total cases, 1.03 percent increase
• Stafford Township: 31 new cases, 3,061 total cases, 1.02 percent increase
• Surf City: 1 new case, 81 total cases, 1.25 percent increase
• Toms River: 127 new cases, 13,016 total cases, 0.99 percent increase
• Tuckerton: 2 new cases, 329 total cases, 0.61 percent increase

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