{"id":5132,"date":"2020-11-18T19:14:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T00:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2020-11-18T19:14:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T00:14:28","slug":"coronavirus-cases-spike-in-ocean-county-all-long-term-care-facilities-now-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2020\/11\/coronavirus-cases-spike-in-ocean-county-all-long-term-care-facilities-now-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Cases Spike in Ocean County, All Long Term Care Facilities Now Affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16066\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/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=\"https:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/outbreak-coronavirus-world-1024x506px-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus (Image: CDC)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coronavirus (Image: CDC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ocean County health officials on Wednesday said coronavirus cases were spiking in the county, including infections that are now affecting every long term care facility county-wide.<\/p>\n<p>Ocean County added 209 new cases Wednesday after 203 new cases were reported Tuesday, said Freeholder Gerry P. Little at a meeting of the board Wednesday afternoon. Two deaths were recorded over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are spiking with the rest of the state and with the rest of the country,\u201d said Little.<\/p>\n<p>Long term care facilities have been hit especially hard. At one point as cases subsided, half of those facilities in the county had zero cases among their residents. Now, all 20 of the long term care facilities in Ocean County had active cases, Little said.<\/p>\n<p>Middlesex County led the state in new cases Wednesday, with 447 reported. Among New Jersey\u2019s 21 counties, Ocean ranked 10th for the number of new cases over the past day.<\/p>\n<p>Little said he and other county officials \u2013 plus their counterparts from across the state in county government \u2013 held a phone conference with Gov. Phil Murphy\u2019s staff this week, where it was requested that additional testing capacity be added. Though Ocean County has never turned away patients from its testing sites due to a lack of equipment, it will comply with the governor\u2019s suggestion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be upping our testing even though we\u2019ve met the demand, at the request of the governor,\u201d said Little.<\/p>\n<p>For next week, testing will be available at the county\u2019s drive-up testing site at Ocean County College from Monday through Wednesday between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. After the weekend following the Thanksgiving holiday, testing will be offered Monday, Wednesday and Friday, before the county moves to a five-day per week schedule. Those who want to be tested must <a href=\"https:\/\/ochd.simplybook.me\/v2\/\">register with the county health department beforehand by visiting this website<\/a>.<\/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\/11\/coronavirus-cases-spike-in-ocean-county-all-long-term-care-facilities-now-affected\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean County health officials on Wednesday said coronavirus cases were spiking in the county, including infections that are now affecting every long term care facility county-wide. Ocean County added 209 new cases Wednesday after 203 new cases were reported Tuesday, said Freeholder Gerry P. Little at a meeting of the board Wednesday afternoon. 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