{"id":3949,"date":"2020-03-31T19:19:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T23:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2020-03-31T19:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T23:19:58","slug":"toms-river-tops-150-coronavirus-cases-as-ocean-county-tops-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2020\/03\/toms-river-tops-150-coronavirus-cases-as-ocean-county-tops-1000\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Tops 150 Coronavirus Cases as Ocean County Tops 1,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16066\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/outbreak-coronavirus-world-1024x506px.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16066\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16066\" src=\"http:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/outbreak-coronavirus-world-1024x506px-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus (Image: CDC)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coronavirus (Image: CDC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ocean County has become one of the few counties in the nation to confirm more than 1,000 cases of the novel coronavirus among its residents, and Toms River Township&#8217;s number of cases stood at 156 on Tuesday, as the county seat&#8217;s number of infected continues to rise. Toms River has the second-most infections in the county.<\/p>\n<p>Lakewood still leads the county by a significant margin in total cases, data from the Ocean County Health Department showed Tuesday. Lakewood&#8217;s number of cases stood at 438, more than 40 percent of the county&#8217;s total.<\/p>\n<p>The next-most affected town was Toms River followed by Brick, with 104 cases, then Jackson, with 100 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Several Ocean County municipalities have yet to confirm any cases of the virus. Eagleswood, Harvey Cedars, Mantoloking, Ocean Gate, Pine Beach and Tuckerton had zero cases. A few towns, Island Heights, Lavallette, Seaside Park, Ship Bottom, Surf City, Barnegat Light and Bay Head, had only one or two cases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2020\/03\/toms-river-tops-150-coronavirus-cases-as-ocean-county-tops-1000\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean County has become one of the few counties in the nation to confirm more than 1,000 cases of the novel coronavirus among its residents, and Toms River Township&#8217;s number of cases stood at 156 on Tuesday, as the county seat&#8217;s number of infected continues to rise. Toms River has the second-most infections in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[971,11],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-ocean-county-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/outbreak-coronavirus-world-1024x506px.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}