Intensive care units mostly full in Central Jersey, health commissioner says

New Jersey reported its largest single-day death toll from the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday as the state's top health official said intensive care units in the central part of the state were approaching capacity.

State Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said there were signs that the surge of patients had shifted from North Jersey and was moving into the central and southern regions of the state.

“We’ve seen that increase come from the north and it is now hitting the central,” Persichilli said at the state's daily coronavirus briefing. “Most of the critical care beds in the central region right now are full.”

She said a total of nine hospitals went to a divert status Monday, meaning they temporarily no longer accepted new patients, most often because their critical care units were at capacity. Five of those hospitals were in Central Jersey, she said.

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(Asbury Park Press)