New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli says New Jersey is in the midst of "yet another COVID surge."

Persichilli joined North Brunswick's virtual COVID-19 briefing this morning, saying the state's COVID-19 test positivity rate is at 12%, the highest it's been since the Omicron surge in January.

"Although we're seeing high cases and high positivity, our hospitalizations – and this is the good news – although they're increasing, they are not increasing at a rate that we saw in January and certainly not what we saw in March and April of 2020," says Persichilli.

The Department of Health says COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death in New Jersey, after heart disease and cancer.