5 Essex County Towns Surpass 1,000 Coronavirus Cases | Bloomfield – Bloomfield, NJ Patch

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Five municipalities in Essex County have surpassed 1,000 coronavirus cases as of Tuesday, and together, make up more than two-thirds of all COVID-19 cases in the county, according to officials’ latest tally.

Combined, Bloomfield (1,046), East Orange (1,811), Irvington (1,298), Newark (7,059) and West Orange (1,172) have seen about 71.7 percent of the 17,279 cases in Essex County.

The five municipalities represent about 62.4 percent of the county’s total population, according to the latest U.S. Census estimates.

Essex County officials said the number of infected individuals in any municipality is likely to be “much greater than indicated,” as Tuesday’s data only includes people who have been tested and whose lab results have been reported in the state’s data system.

Some experts and officials have argued that many towns are seeing inflated COVID-19 totals due to the number of nursing and retirement homes within their borders.

A town-by-town breakdown of cases, deaths linked to the disease and most recent population estimate from the U.S. Census follows below.

  • Belleville – 955 cases, 57 deaths (population: 36,497)
  • Bloomfield – 1046 cases, 61 deaths (population: 49,973)
  • Caldwell – 104 cases, 5 deaths (population: 7,941)
  • Cedar Grove – 404 cases, 98 deaths (population: 12,489)
  • East Orange – 1811 cases, 182 deaths (population: 64,367)
  • Essex Fells – 20 cases, 2 deaths (population: 2,085)
  • Fairfield – 129 cases, 16 deaths (population: 7,474)
  • Glen Ridge – 36 cases, 8 deaths (population: 7,574)
  • Irvington – 1298 cases, 137 deaths (population: 54,312)
  • Livingston – 473 cases, 66 deaths (population: 30,303)
  • Maplewood – 284 cases, 24 deaths (population: 25,380)
  • Millburn – 137 cases, 7 deaths (population: 20,080)
  • Montclair – 401 cases, 42 deaths (population: 38,564)
  • Newark – 7059 cases, 569 deaths (population: 282,011)
  • North Caldwell – 40 cases, 4 deaths (population: 6,621)
  • Nutley – 469 cases, 33 deaths (population: 28,434)
  • Orange – 927 cases, 71 deaths (population: 30,551)
  • Roseland – 85 cases, 15 deaths (population: 5,835)
  • South Orange – 94 cases, 4 deaths (population: 16,691)
  • Verona – 116 cases, 13 deaths (population: 13,390)
  • West Caldwell – 219 cases, 38 deaths (population: 10,837)
  • West Orange – 1172 cases, 156 deaths (population: 47,563)

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