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Out of 600 COVID-19 deaths over the last month of 2021, only four were among people with break-through cases, according to state officials on Wednesday.

In what may be the strongest indicator yet that the latest omicron fueled wave of COVID infections is waning, the state's rate of transmission (r/t) has dropped below 1.0.

Republicans in the New Jersey Legislature will try again to limit Gov. Phil Murphy's pandemic powers.

It is back to class for most school districts that were forced into remote learning to begin the New Year.

For the first time since New Year's Day, New Jersey's seven-day average of new positive COVID tests has dropped below 20,000.

Despite falling COVID metrics being reported by Gov. Phil Murphy's administration and an overall drop in hospitalizations, many hospitals in New Jersey continue to postpone some elective surgeries.

New Jersey's Consumer Fraud Act, the OAG said in a release, "protects consumers from gross and unreasonable inflation of the sale price of any product sought by consumers to respond to or protect themselves from a public health crisis."

The company that supplies the kits for New Jersey and other states blames an "isolated labeling error" for sending the man's test sample to Cella's home by mistake.

COVID-related hospitalizations as of Wednesday night totaled 5,933 – down 155 from one day earlier. The total hadn’t dropped from a day earlier since Dec. 16.

With more than 6,000 patients in New Jersey hospitals either for or with COVID, the state's medical resources are again being strained. Help is on the way.