The New Jersey Department of Health is reporting today zero new Covid-19 deaths in the state’s hospitals – the first time there have been no new reported deaths from the virus since July 30, 2020. 

The lack of new deaths illustrates both how well New Jersey’s Covid-19 vaccination effort has worked to mitigate new infections and hospitalizations, as well as how the advances made by physicians in treating patients.

New Jersey has so far administer over 9.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, with 4.8 million fully vaccinated.