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COURT HOUSE – June 5: Cape May County reported eight new COVID-19 cases today.
One case was associated with a Middle Township long-term care facility, and others were community-based, with two in Lower Township, and one each in Cape May, Middle Township, North Wildwood, Wildwood and Wildwood Crest.
The additional cases increased the total for the county to 649, with 431 of those cases now off quarantine, 169 still active and 49 fatalities.
Today, Gov. Phil Murphy announced 79 new fatalities, increasing the death toll in the struggle with COVID-19 over 12,000, at 12,049. There were 864 additional new cases in the state today, raising the total since the first case March 4 to 163,336.
Murphy also announced that the Motor Vehicle Commission’s offices would open for limited service beginning June 15, with driver license tests expected to begin June 19. The state has tripled the number of road test examiners to help clear the backlog.
COVID-19 hospitalizations also continued to decline. Murphy said the reproduction number from each new case remains below one, a sign for increasing flexibility in the reopening of the state’s economy. The metric means that the expected number of cases generated by a single new case is below one additional case. The virus’s transmission rate in the population is slowing.
