On March 18, the Long Beach Island Health Department announced the first positive case of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, on LBI. Joseph Lattanzi, a doctor at Southern Ocean Medical Center, in Manahawkin, further confirmed the positive result, for an 83-year-old Surf City man.

As of this Monday, March 30, the Ocean County Health Department also lists three cases from Long Beach Township; two each in Ship Bottom and Barnegat Light; 12 cases in Stafford Township; 23 in Barnegat; seven cases from Little Egg…