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The largest outbreak was in an Essex County school, which was linked to 92 cases..
Outbreaks are defined as two or more lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases among students or staff transmitted within the school or school-related activities.
Since the onset of the academic year, there have been 131 confirmed outbreaks across New Jersey with 626 linked cases, the COVID-19 dashboard shows.
Those outbreaks were reported in the following districts.
- Atlantic County: 5 confirmed outbreaks and 14 linked cases
- Bergen County: 29 confirmed outbreaks and 121 linked cases
- Burlington County: 7 confirmed outbreaks and 24 linked cases
- Camden County: 13 confirmed outbreaks and 66 linked cases
- Cape May County: 8 confirmed outbreaks and 23 linked cases
- Cumberland County: 6 confirmed outbreaks and 14 linked cases
- Essex County: 1 confirmed outbreaks and 92 linked cases
- Gloucester County: 7 confirmed outbreaks and 41 linked cases
- Hudson County: 2 confirmed outbreaks and 10 linked cases
- Hunterdon County: 2 confirmed outbreaks and 7 linked cases
- Mercer County: 3 confirmed outbreaks and 14 linked cases
- Monmouth County: 7 confirmed outbreaks and 21 linked cases
- Morris County: 2 confirmed outbreaks and 10 linked cases
- Ocean County: 5 confirmed outbreaks and 42 linked cases
- Passaic County: 6 confirmed outbreaks and 27 linked cases
- Salem County: 13 confirmed outbreaks and 43 linked cases
- Somerset County: 3 confirmed outbreaks and 9 linked cases
- Sussex County: 5 confirmed outbreaks and 13 linked cases
- Warren County: 5 confirmed outbreaks and 12 linked cases
The names of the schools were not released.
Gov. Phil Murphy has said he does not want to order a statewide shutdown for schools and instead, allows local districts to decide how to conduct classes.
An additional 529 new COVID-19 cases were reported Tuesday, including 133 confirmed deaths.
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