{"id":40641,"date":"2022-01-01T21:03:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T21:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/?p=40641"},"modified":"2022-01-01T21:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T21:03:38","slug":"n-j-reports-record-29740-covid-cases-16-deaths-hospitalizations-top-4000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/n-j-reports-record-29740-covid-cases-16-deaths-hospitalizations-top-4000\/","title":{"rendered":"N.J. reports record 29,740 COVID cases, 16 deaths. Hospitalizations top 4,000."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 75px;height: 75px;border-radius: 50%;background: url(https:\/\/nordot-res.cloudinary.com\/c_limit,w_200,h_200,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/ch\/units\/571896701664330849\/profile_1.png);background-position: center;background-size: cover;vertical-align: middle\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 5px;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;vertical-align: middle\">Published by <br \/>NJ.com<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px\"><\/div>\n<p>New Jersey entered the new year Saturday the same way it ended with another daily record for confirmed COVID-19 positive tests &#8211; 29,740 &#8211; as the state\u2019s hospitals reported more than 4,000 coronavirus patients, topping the peak in hospitalizations during last winter\u2019s surge. The new mark is the latest in a series of record-setting days for the Garden State with four consecutive days of more than 20,000 cases. On Friday, New Jersey reported 28,512 confirmed positive tests. Until last week, the state\u2019s single-day record was 6,922, set Jan. 13, 2021. The dramatic spike in cases comes as the state,&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nordot-read-more \" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nordot.app\/850116235451367424?c=819177386184916992\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published by NJ.com New Jersey entered the new year Saturday the same way it ended with another daily record for confirmed COVID-19 positive tests &#8211; 29,740 &#8211; as the state\u2019s hospitals reported more than 4,000 coronavirus patients, topping the peak in hospitalizations during last winter\u2019s surge. The new mark is the latest in a series &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/n-j-reports-record-29740-covid-cases-16-deaths-hospitalizations-top-4000\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;N.J. reports record 29,740 COVID cases, 16 deaths. Hospitalizations top 4,000.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40642,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40641\/revisions\/40642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}