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Distributed by the New Jersey Department of Health
Covid Weekly Activity Report
Attached please find the COVID-19 Weekly Activity Report. The report includes information on current CDC COVID-19 hospital admission levels, the primary surveillance indicator to help guide individual and community decisions related to risk and preventative measures. In addition to hospitalization metrics, the report includes information on other important indicators for monitoring COVID-19 activity including data on cases, deaths, syndromic surveillance, and genomic surveillance.
Report Highlights:
- CDC COVID-19 Hospital Admission Levels, for the week ending June 1, 2023, are low in all counties.
- The percentage of deaths due to COVID-19 in the past week is a timely measure of mortality trends. For the week ending June 1, 2023, <2% of deaths were due to COVID-19 (CDC COVID Data Tracker).
- In the past week, 0.3% of emergency department visits were diagnosed as COVID-19. This is a moderate increase since the previous week (CDC COVID Data Tracker).
- In the four weeks leading up to June 1, 2023, XBB.1.5 accounted for 66.6% of sequenced variants. XBB.1.16 and XBB accounted for 11.7% and 6.4%, respectively.
- COVID-19 case rates among students and staff case rates remained stable and low. For the May 15 - May 21, 2023 period, overall case rates in all counties were very low.
This report can be found on the NJDOH website at https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/statistics/covid/index.shtml.
Please contact the Communicable Disease Service at 609-826-5964 with any questions about the report.