Burlington County reported an additional 73 COVID-19 cases and 19 fatalities on Wednesday, April 15th, bringing the county’s total to 1,281 cases and 48 deaths. 97 people have been cleared from quarantine.

“Today we grieve for the loss of nineteen residents whose lives were cut short by Coronavirus disease,” said Dr. Herb Conaway. “Each day our first responders, healthcare workers, and essential personnel working in groceries, banks, factories and supply houses risk their lives going to work. Despite all of their efforts, and all the work that is done, we as a community will rise and fall by the compliance to social distancing rules. The lives of your families and friends are on the line. Please, stay home.”

The town breakdown is as follows:

* Variation in the numbers reflect a change in coding methodology. Until yesterday, Burlington County Health Department was previously using ZIP to categorize numbers. Burlington County now uses GIS (district numbers used by Central Communication) to ensure accuracy.

CONTACT TRACING CLARIFICATION

Burlington County is actively engaged in contact tracing positive COVID19 cases. The focus is on close contacts, defined as closer than 6 feet for more than 10 minutes, household contacts and those that work in high risk settings such as healthcare workers and long term care facilities. If community exposure has occurred, where a COVID-19 positive person was in close contact with people for an extended period of time, while symptomatic, we will notify the public. Since residents are abiding by the social distancing requirements, we have not run into that issue since our first releases. Reminder: Mass exposure, due to social distancing guidelines, and the cooperation of the public has been minimized. Residents are reminded to remain 6 feet apart while obtaining essential items or services, and stay home unless absolutely necessary.

PPE DONATION

Burlington County is accepting PPE donations from residents and businesses to assist our efforts in combatting COVID19. Donations are accepted 7 days a week at 60 Academy Drive in Westampton, NJ, 08060.

To make a donation, please call and set up an appointment

Day time Phone 8am-5pm : 609 – 518- 5805

Off Hours Logistics : 609-847-2968

Or email: burlcooem@co.burlington.nj.us

FOR QUESTIONS REGARDING THE USE OF FACE COVERINGS, PLEASE SEE THE CDC LINK BELOW

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/cloth-face-cover.html

The statewide COVID-19 count grew by 2,625 cases and 351 deaths since Tuesday, for a total of 71,030 cases and 3,156 fatalities as of Wednesday, April 15th.

COVID-19 Cases by County
Data is provisional and subject to revision.

Bergen County:

10,848 Positive Test Results

608 Deaths

Essex County:

8,579 Positive Test Results

590 Deaths

Hudson County:

8,511 Positive Test Results

312 Deaths

Union County:

7,438 Positive Test Results

269 Deaths

Passaic County:

6,750 Positive Test Results

182 Deaths

Middlesex County:

6,576 Positive Test Results

248 Deaths

Monmouth County:

4,122 Positive Test Results

167 Deaths

Ocean County:

4,016 Positive Test Results

166 Deaths

Morris County:

3,525 Positive Test Results

212 Deaths

Somerset County:

2,001 Positive Test Results

101 Deaths

Mercer County:

1,856 Positive Test Results

76 Deaths

Camden County:

1,587 Positive Test Results

49 Deaths

Burlington County:

1,261 Positive Test Results

45 Deaths

Gloucester County:

602 Positive Test Results

14 Deaths

Sussex County:

551 Positive Test Results

41 Deaths

Warren County:

468 Positive Test Results

30 Deaths

Hunterdon County:

356 Positive Test Results

14 Deaths

Atlantic County:

322 Positive Test Results

13 Deaths

Cumberland County:

210 Positive Test Results

3 Deaths

Cape May County:

178 Positive Test Results

10 Deaths

Salem County:

84 Positive Test Results

4 Deaths