Nearly 40% of coronavirus-related fatalities in New Jersey have taken place at nursing homes, according to data newly disclosed by state officials.
Outbreaks have been reported at 394 of the state’s 503 long-term care facilities, which include nursing, assisted-living and dementia-care homes. Those facilities have recorded 9,094 cases and 1,530 deaths, the data show. New Jersey has reported a total of 3,840 deaths statewide.
Health department officials added data on long-term care cases to the state Covid-19 website after reports of several bodies found stacked in a makeshift morgue at a long-term care facility in Andover, in Sussex County. A ...