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January reported highest number of COVID-19 cases in Woodbridge
WOODBRIDGE – The township reported 160 new COVID-19 cases over a three-day period, which brings the total number of cases to 7,800, according to Mayor John McCormac in his coronavirus report on Feb. 1.
Fifty-seven new cases of COVID-19 were reported for Jan. 29, 61 new cases were reported for Jan. 30 and 42 new cases were reported for Jan. 31.
“January was officially our worst month on record with 2,081 new cases compared to 1,986 in December, our second worst month,” McCormac said. “The only good news is that a large majority of the January cases were in the first half of the month so things are slowing down just a bit. We will take good news any way we can get it.”
Average seven-day new COVID-19 cases up by five in Woodbridge, blood drives set Feb. 2, 17
WOODBRIDGE – The township reported 249 new COVID-19 cases over a four-day period, which brings the total number of cases to 7,640, according to Mayor John McCormac in his coronavirus report on Jan. 29.
Seventy-four new cases of COVID-19 were reported for Jan. 25, 63 new cases were reported for Jan. 26, 46 new cases were reported for Jan. 27 and 66 new cases were reported for Jan. 28.
“These numbers raised our seven day rolling average to 60 from 55 on Monday,” McCormac said.
The number of COVID-19 cases include East Jersey State Prison and a number of related state facilities in the Avenel section of the township. The state reported zero new cases from their facilities over the four-day period. The total number of cases at the facilities remain at 837.
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A pair of New Jersey-based theater companies will be debuting online productions over the next week spotlighting important women in history:
♦ East Lynne Theater Company will present Stephanie Garrett reading “Lynching, Our National Crime,” a speech Ida B. Wells delivered at the National Negro Conference (forerunner to the NAACP) in New York City in the spring of 1909. The prerecorded performance will premiere 8 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, Jan. 28, on ELTC’s YouTube channel and be available for viewing through Feb. 28.
Wells’ work began in the early 1890s, and by 1909, she was the most prominent anti-lynching campaigner in the United States. She died in 1931 and received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for her reporting.
WOODBRIDGE – The township reported 167 new COVID-19 cases over a three-day period, which brings the total number of cases to 7,391, according to Mayor John McCormac in his coronavirus report on Jan. 25.
Eighty-three new cases of COVID-19 were reported for Jan. 22, 41 new cases were reported for Jan. 23 and 43 new cases were reported for Jan. 24.
“Our seven day rolling average is down to 55 after being over 80 for three days in early January so things are moving in the right direction,” McCormac said.
The township has been chosen by the state and Middlesex County to assist in the distribution of the Moderna vaccine. According to regulations established by Gov. Phil Murphy’s COVID-19 Task Force, the first doses are allocated to health care professionals and emergency medical technicians. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave emergency use approval to the Moderna vaccine on Dec. 18.