New Jersey now has at least 64,584 cases and 2,443 deaths of the coronavirus as the outbreak continued to escalate Monday, with 3,219 new cases and 94 numbers reported in the last 24 hours.

Gov. Phil Murphy offered condolences to the families of the 2,443 who have died.

“To put that in perspective, that is more than the number of New Jersey who gave their lives in the Korean and Vietnam wars," Murphy said during his daily coronavirus press briefing in Trenton. "These numbers hit us right square in the gut. Our hearts are with every family. We honor every lost life.”

The state’s tracking website shows 118,097 tests have been reported, with a 46.2% positive rate.

As of 10 p.m. Sunday, there were 7,781 patients hospitalized in the state with the virus or suspected of having the virus. Of those, 1,886 were in critical or intensive care, and 1,611 are on ventilators. That’s about 55% of the state’s capacity for ventilators.

Another 556 patients have been discharged in the last 24 hours.

Murphy added that the curve of cases in New Jersey is “undeniably now flattening" after weeks of strict lockdown orders in calling for residents to stay indoors and the shuttering of many businesses.

Murphy cautioned the house is still “on fire” and people need to continue to adhere to the unprecedented rules to avoid losing ground.

“It is still rising," he said. “We’ve got to hit that plateau and then aggressively bring it down the other side. We only do that if you all stay home. Literally. Just stay home.”

Murphy announced Monday afternoon that New Jersey would join with six other states — New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts — in developing a regional plan to lift restrictions and re-open, but only after the state has pushed safely past the peak of cases.

The partial county-by-county breakdown of cases includes:

Bergen County: 10,092 with 482 deaths

Hudson County: 7,879 with 236 deaths

Essex County: 7,634 with 433 deaths

Union County: 6,636 with 217 deaths

Middlesex County: 5,987 with 204 deaths

Passaic County: 5,950 with 136 deaths

Monmouth County: 3,875 with 127 deaths

Ocean County: 3,593 with 141 deaths

Morris County: 3,225 with 162 deaths

Somerset County: 1,809 with 85 deaths

Mercer County: 1,646 with 53 deaths

Camden County: 1,401 with 35 deaths

Burlington County: 1,155 with 24 deaths

Gloucester County: 566 with 9 deaths

Sussex County: 508 with 38 deaths

Warren County: 416 with 24 deaths

Hunterdon County: 325 with 11 deaths

Atlantic County: 267 with 8 deaths

Cumberland County: 187 with 3 deaths

Cape May County: 164 with 9 deaths

Salem County: 66 with 4 deaths

Another 1,203 cases and 2 deaths remain under investigation to determine where the person resides.

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It’s difficult to get a complete picture of exactly how many people in New Jersey currently have COVID-19 because the state is testing only symptomatic residents and officials say testing has been backed up for up to 14 days. The state also is not reporting significant increases in daily testing, so it is unclear exactly how quickly the virus is spreading.

The curve of cases of the coronavirus in New Jersey is “undeniably now flattening" after weeks of strict lockdown orders in calling for residents to stay indoors and the shuttering of many businesses, Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday.

Murphy cautioned the house is still “on fire” and people need to continue to adhere to the unprecedented rules to avoid losing ground.

“It is still rising," the governor said after announcing the state now has 64,584 cases and 2,443 deaths of COVID-19. “We’ve got to hit that plateau and then aggressively bring it down the other side. We only do that if you all stay home. Literally. Just stay home.”

Murphy said the latest numbers showed progress, but he stressed that people must stay the course.

“If we stop doing what we’re doing, even one bit, COVID-19 can boomerang on us,” the governor said. “We are right in the thick of it, folks. We cannot take our foot off the gas."

On Sunday, Murphy downplayed the chances that he’ll begin to lift strict lockdown orders he put in place to battle the pandemic as soon as the beginning of May.

“Any sort of an economic reopening or recovery depends first and foremost on a complete health care recovery,” Murphy said on CBS’ “Face The Nation.”

He also said he’s having “discussions with our neighboring states on the whole question of testing, contact tracing, what are the rules of the road going to be for things like bars and restaurants.”

In all, Murphy has issued 24 executive orders to help slow coronavirus outbreak.

As of Monday, the virus had infected more than 1.8 million people across the globe, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University. Of those, more than 115,200 have died and nearly 441,000 have recovered.

NJ Advance Media staff writer Brent Johnson contributed to this report.

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