By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff
Ocean City and Upper Township were leading Cape May County in the number of active COVID-19 cases as of Monday, Oct. 5, combining for more than a third of all active cases among county residents.
Ocean City was reporting 25 active cases among residents and Upper Township reported 16, according to the Cape May County Department of Health’s daily statistics Monday. Ocean City’s number had been as high as 29 late last week. Ocean City also had two of the nine non-resident active cases; three others were in Cape May, two in Sea Isle City and one each in Wildwood and Wildwood Crest.
On Monday, there were a total of 83 active cases among residents, the nine among non-residents and only one active case, in Lower Township, in long-term care facilities.
Five new cases were reported Monday, two each in Ocean City and Upper Township and one in North Wildwood. The only new non-resident case was reported in Sea Isle City.
For active cases among residents, Middle Township had 11; Lower Township, 10; Dennis Township, North Wildwood and Wildwood, four each; Sea Isle City, three; Woodbine, two; and Cape May, Stone Harbor, West Wildwood and Wildwood Crest, one each.
There have been no new fatalities reported over the past week. Cape May County’s death toll from COVID-19 is 92, 43 of them in Lower Township, including 33 in long-term care.
Ocean City has had three fatalities, including two in long-term care; Upper Township has had three and Sea Isle City, one. There have been two fatalities in Cape May and none in West Cape May or Cape May Point.
Cape May Point has had only one reported case of the coronavirus, the lowest in the county.
Countywide, there have been 1,390 cases.
On Sunday, there were five new cases among residents and eight among visitors. On Saturday, five new cases among residents and one reported in a visitor. On Friday, there were 14 new cases, eight of them among non-residents; and on Thursday, there were 18 new cases, including six in Ocean City and one among non-residents.
Over that span, there were no new cases in long-term care.