COVID-19 is proving to be like friends or relatives who visit you at your beach house in the summer for a few days and end up staying a few weeks. It just won’t go away.

The Ocean County Health Department reported 2,815 new confirmed positive COVID cases in the county for the week of May 25 to May 31. That was up from 1,806 new confirmed cases for the week of May 19 to 25, up from 1,229 new cases for the period of May 5 to May 18, and up from 650 cases for the period of April 22 to May 4.