TRENTON - As states prepare to receive doses of the federally approved Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, officials in New Jersey reported the highest number of daily infections to date.
According to state health officials, positives cases rose by more than 6,200 on Saturday. The uptick in new cases is nearly double the number of positive tests reported on Friday.
Since the onset of the pandemic, the Garden State has managed 396k infections. The number of reported deaths in the most densely populated state in the nation rose by 71 on Saturday, according to health officials.
More than 15,800 deaths in New Jersey have been attributed to the novel virus. Despite neighboring states tightening their coronavirus restrictions on businesses and.