Hoboken Announces New Coronavirus Death, Will Get More Vaccines

HOBOKEN, NJ — There was good news and bad news in Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla's most recent coronavirus update for the city.

"I’m saddened to report an additional COVID-19 fatality that occurred earlier this month, a female in her early 70s," Bhalla wrote. "I send my deepest condolences to her family and friends during this difficult time."

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That brings the city's death toll from the virus to 47.

However, Bhalla said the city got 1,100 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, which will be administered to eligible residents via Carepoint (the company that manages Hoboken's hospital).

To see Patch's list of how to get a vaccine in Hoboken and Hudson County, click here.

The vaccine news countywide has been mixed. Sen. Robert Menendez this week asked Gov. Phil Murphy for more vaccines, as the county has the lowest percentage of people vaccinated out of 21 counties. READ MORE: Menendez Asks For More Vaccines For Hudson County

Bhalla also noted:

The Hoboken Health Department has reported the following, new COVID-19 cases in Hoboken:

• March 13: 19
• March 14: 24
• March 15: 9
• March 16: 16
• March 17: 40
• March 18: 24
• March 19: 31
• Total: 163. (The previous week's count was 188; more here.)

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Hoboken has had a total of 4,057 known, confirmed cases.

Bhalla also gave more information on vaccine sites, variants, and eligibility. To read the rest of his message, click here.

He shared these links to chain pharmacies offering the vaccine:

• CVS: https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine
• Rite Aid: https://www.riteaid.com/covid-19
• Walgreens: https://www.walgreens.com/topic/promotion/covid-vaccine.jsp

State numbers on hospitalizations, variants

In New Jersey on Tuesday, it was announced that there were 61 new coronavirus deaths confirmed since the day before. That makes 21,727 confirmed deaths in the state.

While the daily fatality rate has declined since the winter holidays, it never returned to the level it was at last August and September, before the second wave in New Jersey. There were a total of only two coronavirus fatalities reported statewide from Sept. 7 to Sept. 8.

On April 30, 2020, the one-day death toll in New Jersey reached an all-time high of 460 residents in 24 hours.

There are presently 1,992 patients hospitalized with the virus, 428 of those in critical care, 50.7 percent of those on ventilators. There are 400 reports in the state of new variants.

As of Wednesday, more than 543,000 Americans had died of coronavirus. (You can see which states had the highest death toll in the past week on this CDC map.)

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