Ocean County has reached a new high in its number of new COVID-19 cases in the fourth wave of the pandemic that seems as if it will never go away.

The Ocean County Health Department announced the county had experienced 2,212 new cases in the week of Dec. 8 through 14. That’s up from 1,907 new cases for the week of Dec. 1 to 7 and from from 1,235 new cases from the week of Nov. 24 to Nov. 30.