The number of COVID-19 cases in Ocean County continues to climb.
On Monday, Aug. 2, the Ocean County Health Department announced there had been 268 new cases of COVID-19 in the county from July 31 through Aug. 2. Add in the 82 cases reported on July 27, the same number on July 28, the 94 on July 29 and the 73 reported on the 30th and the county had 599 new cases over the course of the week. Those are cases confirmed positive by testing, not merely suspected. They include any cases on LBI.
Subscribe to keep reading
This story is from our archive. Get your SandPaper Annual Pass for access to our digital archive, plus everything else a pass includes. Details below.
Annual Pass — $18 Details
365-day access to:
- The complete SandPaper digital archive (stories date back to 2012).
- Full photo galleries from our photographers.
- The entire catalog of SandPaper games, puzzles and quizzes.
How it works
- Enter your email below and click to pay the one-time $18. Card details are entered on Stripe’s secure page.
- You’re in straight away — no password to create, and nothing to set up or manage.
- You stay signed in. If you’re ever signed out, or you read on a new phone or computer, we’ll email you a code to get you back in.
- Never auto-renews. Your pass is good for one year. We will email you when it expires so you can renew if you’d like.
See our site policies for more information.
Already a subscriber? We’ll email a code to get you back in.
